Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems: Advanced Radar and Surface Sensors for Flight Safety and Air Traffic Management

by Pravas R. Mahapatra, Dusan S. Zrnic, Vladislaw Mazur, Richard J. Doviak

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the science, sensors, and systems that form modern aviation weather surveillance systems. Focusing on radar-based surveillance, it presents logical, incremental detail on the fundamentals of the various disciplines involved and their complex interplay. This includes giving a background to aviation systems and control, atmospheric and meteorological aspects, weather issues in relation to aviation, and broad coverage of modern aviation weather surveillance and information systems, including detailed material on Doppler weather radar, plus new generation atmospheric sensors. Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems is an excellent resource for civil and military aviation professionals; electronic engineers, especially those working in radar; meteorologists; pilots; and flight crews.

Copublished with the Institute of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563473401
Publisher:	American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	453
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Pravas R. Mahapatra is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has an ME in aeronautical engineering and a PhD in radar systems. His research is focused on topics in aerospace and electronic systems. His experience includes significant periods of post-doctoral research in the US at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), California Institute of Technology and the University of Oklahoma. He has authored or coauthored over 100 papers, and was the recipient of the 1993 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Basic background of aviation
• Chapter 3: Atmospheric effects on aviation
• Chapter 4: Origins of harmful atmospheric effects on aircraft
• Chapter 5: Requirements of systems for aviation weather surveillance
• Chapter 6: Doppler weather radar as a primary aviation weather sensor
• Chapter 7: Modern Doppler weather radars for aviation
• Chapter 8: Other sensors and systems for aviation weather
• Chapter 9: Integrated system approaches
• Chapter 10: Automatic detection and tracking of hazardous weather features
• Chapter 11: Atmospheric turbulence and its detection by radar
• Chapter 12: Lightning and aviation
• Chapter 13: Polarisation diversity radars

Editorial Reviews

'Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems is an impressive achievement and is an important part of the armamentarium of not only personnel directly handling aviation meteorological functions, but also of pilots, air traffic controllers, airline managers, civil aviation system planners and regulators, accident investigators and indeed anyone with a serious interest in aviation. Beautifully printed and illustrated with figures, tables and graphs and colour plates, the material provided by the author will ensure that those needing information on all of the important scientific and technological aspects of the aviation weather surveillance problems, will readily locate it in this volume.'

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