NEXRAD Radar Products

Processed NEXRAD imagery showing heavy bird migration from Cuba to the Florida (24 hour loop)DeTect staff have been designing, developing and operating systems using data from the U.S. National Weather Service network of NEXt generation RADars weather radars (WSR-88D or NEXRAD) since 1998 having developing the first operable network for detection and tracking of bird movements in near-real time for the US, Alaska, Hawaii and Guam. DeTect currently is the developer, host and operator of the largest, most comprehensive NEXRAD bird detection and tracking radar system in the world - the US Air Force (USAF)/Air National Guard (ANG) Avian Hazard Advisory System (AHAS, see www.usahas.com).

DeTect is also a principal member of the Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), a National Science Foundation-funded partnership that includes major universities such as the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Oklahoma, and Colorado State University and private industry partners.

Automated NEXRAD data processing center in DeTect's Panama City facilityDeTect's NEXRAD services & capabilities include:

  • NEXRAD data processing & algorithm development
  • Network design, hosting & operation
  • Database management
  • Data processing & delivery
  • Coverage modeling & analysis
  • Custom programming

bulletRadar Data Delivery & Analysis :

Avian Hazard Advisory System Home Web page DeTect provides a full range of radar data products, analysis and data delivery services for radar information, that includes automated, real-time processing, historical data analysis and development and operation of on-line information web sites. DeTect maintains the largest database in the world on bird and bat activity that includes over five years of bird density and migratory data for the continental United States. This dataset can be used to model historical bird activity at project sites with avian issues (airports, wind farms, landfills, mines) as well as support migratory research for birds and bats. The company maintains a dedicated data processing lab in Panama City, Florida USA that includes full SQl data processing servers.

Radar data processing & support capabilities include:

  • Web-based radar data delivery systems
  • Data sales
  • Database mining & queries
  • SQL database processing
  • Custom programming
  • Query development
  • Statistical analysis
  • Data Quality Assurance/Quality Control
  • Remote system monitoring