Vaisala IRIS Focus Datasheet
IRIS Focus
Remote Sensing Application Software
Weather radar data: courtesy of Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd. Lightning data: courtesy of Transpower New Zealand Ltd.
Features
•Web-based application
•Easy-to-configure events and alerts
•On-demand data regeneration at high resolution
•Tested and audited with the latest security standards
IRIS Focus weather products
Weather products are graphical representations of the data captured by the remote sensing devices, such as weather radars, lightning networks, and lidars.
On-demand products are based on raw data from the IRIS back end systems (IRIS - Interactive Radar Information System and/or TLP - the Total Lightning Processor). IRIS Focus processes this data and generates on demand products in real time. On demand products provide control over the presentation of this data.
You can combine data from several remote sensing devices into composites to provide an expanded area of coverage.
IRIS Focus Remote Sensing Software provides a rich set of unique tools for viewing and analyzing your weather data from various sources: weather radars, lidars, and lightning networks. IRIS Focus helps you better understand storms for quicker decisions and more accurate precipitation classification.
Integrated weather data visualization
Integrated data from various sources enables you to better understand storms and other weather phenomena for more accurate forecasts and earlier alerts.
Radar-based nowcasting
Nowcasting performs advection calculations on motion data from radar products to predict weather movement and severity up to 2 hours in the future.
Lightning Network Health
With the Network Health product, you can visualize the performance of the lightning sensor network.
Events and alerts
IRIS Focus can provide alerts for weather phenomena, such as the approach of a severe storm, turbulence, or flood potential for user-defined areas of interest. This feature is available for radar products.
Customizable map view
The map view can be customized by adding WMS layers from external sources, such as satellite images or radar data from external radar networks.
Technical data
Network requirements
Communication from IRIS Analysis and the TLP to IRIS Focus
Network data transfer |
>100 Mbit/s (1000 Mbit/s recommended) |
|
Communication from IRIS Focus to IRIS Analysis and the TLP |
||
|
|
|
Single user (1 seat) |
Network data transfer |
> 650 kbit/s |
|
Latency |
~150 ms |
|
|
|
Multiple simultaneous |
5 seats |
> 3.5 Mbit/s |
users |
10 seats |
> 7 Mbit/s |
|
||
|
|
|
|
20 seats |
> 14 Mbit/s |
|
|
|
IRIS Focus in Remote Sensing Networks
Hardware requirements
Minimum |
Recommended1) |
• Modern 4-core CPU (Intel Xeon E5 |
• Modern 8-core CPU (Intel Xeon E5 |
series or similar) |
series or similar) |
• 24 GB RAM 2) |
• 32 GB RAM |
• 1 TB HDD |
• 2x 1 SAS TB HDD in RAID 1 |
• 1400 x 1050 minimum screen |
configuration |
resolution |
• 1920 x 1200 screen resolution |
1)The pre-installed IRIS Focus system delivery option uses the Dell PowerEdge R440 rack server unit, which meets the recommended hardware setup.
2)For a small installation with only a few users, 16 GB of RAM is su€cient.
Software requirements
Browser |
IRIS Focus supports current Microsoft Edgeâ, Mozilla |
|
Firefoxâ, and Google Chrome™ browsers. |
Operating system |
CentOS 7 |
IRIS Analysis |
IRIS 8.13.6 or later. |
|
IRIS Analysis provides radar products through a |
|
proprietary socket server connection. |
|
|
TLP |
TLP 1.2.7 (CentOS 8) |
|
|
Weather products
On-demand product |
Weather product |
|
BASE |
|
Echo Base |
BEAM
Antenna Beam Pattern
CAPPI
Constant Altitude PPI
HMAX
Height of Maximum Intensity Product
LAYER
MAX
Maximum Data
MLHGT
Melting Level Height
MVF
Motion Vector Field
Network Health
Lightning network performance
PPI
Plan Position Indicator
RAIN1
Hourly Rain Accumulation
RAIN-N
N-Hour Rain Accumulation
RHI
Range Height Indicator
RTI
Range Time Indicator
SRI
Surface Rainfall Intensity
SHEAR
Wind Shear
SLINE
Shear Line (frontal boundary)
THICK
Echo Thickness
TimeSpan
Lighting event evolution
TOPS
Echo Tops Map
VAD
Velocity Azimuth Display
VIL
Vertically Integrated Liquid
VVP
Velocity Volume Processing
WARN
Warning/Centroid
WIND
Wind Speed and Direction
Published by Vaisala | B211811EN-B © Vaisala 2021
All rights reserved. Any logos and/or product names are trademarks of Vaisala or its individual partners. Any reproduction, transfer, distribution or storage of information contained in this document is strictly prohibited. All specifications — technical included — are subject to change without notice.
Loading...