Join the Pikes Peak LMAG for a Computer History Presentation
Univac Signal Processing & NEXRAD
David Bondurant & Les Nelson, Former Univac Signal Processing Engineers
We have become accustomed to seeing weather maps nightly plotting future violent weather in advance and we receive severe thunderstorm, flash flood, hurricane, tornado warnings on our phones and TV stations. Ever wonder how the NexRAD doppler radar system was developed?
In July, 3 former Sperry Univac engineers had a reunion in Excelsior, Minnesota to reminisce about the development of signal processing at Univac over 50-years ago and the development of the Next Generation Radar System (NEXRAD) by a joint program office of the National Weather Service, Federal Aviation Administration, and US Air Force Weather service starting in 1979. This is the story of Univac involvement with FAA and Joint Program Office and the development of a Programmable Signal Processor at Unisys/Paramax Systems leading to the NEXRAD Radar Data Acquisition (RDA) System, a system which has been in the field at 159 sites in the US and military bases overseas for more than 34-years.
Speaker(s): David BONDURANT, Les Nelson
Agenda:
Introductions
Presentation
Q&A
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/500301