METRANET II RDP is a SW suite, running under a Linux based workstation networked with the ELDES signal and control processor “PERSER-PC” and with any number of Web client workstations, which share the RDP database and accept the RDP products distribution stream.

METRANET II allows the ingest of the local or foreign radar polar moments in ELDES format (customized ingest routines can be designed for third parties radar), the data distribution, the pre and post processing functions and the product generation. METRANET II may generate a wide variety of: reflectivity; precipitation; wind velocity; hydrometeor classification; Nowcasting and converting products (see full list of weather products). The products can be distributed in the most common graphic formats (i.e. JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, GEOTIFF), as well as in the more widely used standard encoding like Opera BUFR, HDF5, UF, ASTERIX-CAT008. Import of data from these formats is also possible. New products, even “user created products”, can be easily added to the system at any moment thanks to the open interface format.

Additionally, the possibility to freely and easily customize the processing/distribution/display chains, delivers to the user the maximum system flexibility and power. The system architecture allows a variety of system configurations, such, for example, as centralized first or second order product generation, or their distribution over several clients.

If requested, one or more client workstations allowing the radar schedule configuration and the local display of the generated radar products can be easily added to the system.

METRANET II allows, through any web browser and a standard PC, any visualization tool like zoom, pan, movie loop, etc.. and control the radar operations through the user friendly GUI.

Finally, a SW is dedicated to the radar system supervision. It is possible to create a synoptic view of the existing radar, complete with the individual operating parameters and status. METRANET II permits to monitor all the networked radar for maintenance purposes and promptly locate any possible faulty unit or sub-complex.

The METRANET II RDP is specifically designed to equip ELDES’ weather radar systems (WR-10X – WR-25XP – WR-J), to retrofit existing ones or to integrate multi-brand radar networks.

The output standard formats guarantee full compatibility with other vendors’ system and scientific communities.

Key Features

• Data Processing complete configurability (pre-processing, product generation and post-processing), even using User created scripts and products
• Can be interfaced, by means of the ELDES radar signal and control processor “PERSER-PC”, to any existing weather Radar for retrofit purposes
• Real time system status monitoring for maintenance purposes and data quality assessment
• Support of single and multi-radar/multi-brand networks
• Wide variety of reflectivity, precipitation, wind velocity, hydrometeor classification, nowcasting and converting products
• Every user can customize the product’s display layout
• Possibility to create custom layers (overlay and underlay) in KLM/images formats
• Linux OS
• WEB based architecture allows the Radar management and monitoring from any standard PC equipped with a standard browser
• Data export in the most common graphic formats (JPG, PNG, GIFF, TIFF, GEOTIFF) and in the widely used standard encoding (HDF5, BUFR, UF, ASTERIX-CAT008)
• Data import (HDF5, BUFR, UF) from foreign radar and composite with local ones
• Automatic data recovery in case of momentary loss of connection with the radar
• Off-line product generation and volume preview from archived data
• Polar volumes export for 3D viewer