Weather Monitoring & Warning Systems

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WeatherMonitoring & Warning

Systems

22400 DAVIS DRIVE StERlIng, VA 20164 www.SutRon.com (703)406-2800 (703)406-2801 fAx EmAIl: [email protected] 5/28/200922400 DAVIS DRIVE StERlIng, VA 20164 www.SutRon.com (703)406-2800 (703)406-2801 fAx EmAIl: [email protected] 5/28/2009

Powerful XPert Data Loggers Provide the Perfect Base for Powerful Weather Stations.

Station FeatureS Highly customizable accepting all sensors for Airport

Weather, Coastal Weather, Precipitation Measuring, Fire Weather, Air Quality, Synoptic, Climatic, Agricultural & Your Unique Application

Portable & permanent, new, upgraded or integrated into existing systems

Highest measurement accuracy available plus complex, advanced data processing/calculating, storage & transmission

WMO-Compliant

Extremely low power consumption

Built by Sutron to last for decades - ruggedized & field-tested

Open architecture -modular, expandable & easily integrates with 3rd party components

Real-time data & reports delivered on-demand to your I-Phone, PC, PDA, Cell Phone, Land Line, etc. by satellite, secure internet, radio, telephone

Sutron Automatic Meteorological Stations are field proven—in every extreme climate & on every continent around the globe.

Sutron Stations are designed for unmanned, remote operation at sites requiring the highest reliability, the lowest power consumption & the most extended longevity.

AUTOMATIC METEOROLOGICAL MONITORING & WARNING SYSTEMS




MONITOR AWSPORTABLE & ECONOMICAL SOLUTION

PORTABLE WEATHER STATION SDI-12, Analog, Digital

Inputs

SD Card for Set Up & Download

Full Access Through Front Panel

Command Line Interface & MODBUS

Modem/Radio Ready for Full Remote Access

SenSor CoMPatiBiLitY

AT/RH (including non-linear analog equation processing sensors)

Precipitation Using Tipping Bucket

Anemometer

RM Young or Gill Ultrasonic Wind Sensor

Barometric Pressure

Solar Radiation

Sutron SDI-12 Shaft Encoder or Bubbler Two 0-5 V Analog Inputs

Three 0 to (+/-)39 mV Differential Analog Input (for bridge-type pressure sensors)

One 4-20 mA input

One digital input for tipping bucket

A 2nd digital input for frequency counter

One SDI-12 port (supports up to 16 SDI-12 sensors) alarms, etc.

CoMMuniCation oPtionS GPRS Modem

GSM Quad Band

License Free Spread Spectrum LOS Radio

UHF/VHF 5 Watt Radio

tYPiCaL FeatureS Set up 16 independent measurements

Equation Processing!

Full featured command line interface (RS-232)

SD Card can download data & read/write set-ups.

View data & set-up entirely from front panel

Advanced Averaging

Operates standalone or connected to wireless modem

inPut SuPPort


Sutron has been building the nation’s tide stations since 1988 when we built noaa’s next Generation Water Level Measurement System (nGWLMS) - over 300 stations provided for the Great Lakes, coastal uSa, & worldwide.

Currently noaa & Sutron are replacing nGWLMS with “Generation iii” tide Stations, based on Sutrons Xpert Datalogger family. the Sutron-designed G3 packages are available for:

Primary Tide Gages, with or without all weather instrumentation

Redundant (backup) Tide Gages

Hydrographic Stations

these standard, noaa/noS-compliant packages bring advanced communications & data handling capabilities to tidal monitoring. available communications include:

High Data Rate GOES Satellite

IP Modems

Irridium Global Satellite Phone (long & short-burst modes)

Spread Spectrum Radio

All Available Types of Land-Line & Cellular Telephones

Hard-Wire & Fiber-Optic

Ethernet on LAN or WAN

G3 GaGe SenSor SuPPort

All Standard Water Level & Meteorologic Sensors

Aquatrak Absolute Liquid Level Sensor, preferred by NOAA/NOS

Miros Air Gap Sensor (used in vessel traffic monitoring applications for ports & harbors)

Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, ie, Teledyne-RDI Workhorse

TIDAL MONITORINGThe US National Ocean Service Trusts Sutron to Build Their Tide Gages. So Should You.

Let Sutron design the tide station that’s right for you.

Tide stations range from a low-end datalogger & pressure transducer to a 100% NOAA-compliant station, surveyed to exacting standards & installed to last 50 years. Stations can measure water level, currents, & water quality. Main stations connected to high-bandwidth communications (IP modems, Ethernet) also support cameras.

Sutron now offers turn-key tide Gages & Services including: Site Investigation Installation Design & Drawings

Station Installation & Training Civil Works Design & Installation

Tide Station Integration (including communications & local base station)

Surveying Arrangements (to relate measured water levels to a known datum per NOS standard procedures)




AIRPORT WEATHER OBSERVATION SYSTEMS

real-time aircraft operation Weather Data - uninterrupted & Verified for Quality

open, Distributed architecture for 1 to 100 runways

each System Customized Precisely for Your unique airport needs

on-Demand Support for Maximum Longevity & efficiency

Sutron’S airPort Weather SYSteM DiViSion is peerless in design, integration, installa-tion & maintenance of airport Weather Systems. as the the designer of the first commercial automated Weather observing System (aWoS) to receive Faa operational approval & the first commercial automated Surface observing System (aSoS) to re-ceive nWS operational approval, our airport Weather VP, roberto arpino, is the most experienced airport Weather System expert in the world.

Station FeatureS• Open design for a variety of sensors

• Local processing

• User defined alarms & alarm options

• PCMCIA for local logs

• Fiber, cable, LOS radio communications

• Built in diagnostic & RMM

• Powered by Mains, Solar, UPS

• Distributed arch. obviates servers

• Lightning & surge protection

• OOP modular design

• On line redundancy

• Easy expansion & customizing

• User configurable operation & interfaces

SYSTEM PRODUCTS METAR-SPECI-LOCAL, MET REPORT - SPECIAL

Observations SYNOP Observation Sea Level Pressure, Barometric Pressure

Tendency & Amount Precipitation Amount (Hourly & Synoptic)

Rain Amounts - Last: minute, hour, 24 hours, total thus far current day, total daily

Other Synoptic Data as required Climatological Data as required Rain Rate (mm/minute & mm/hour)

SkY CONDITIONSCLOUDS HEIGHT Single or multiple ceilometers

Individual cloud hit height

Three layers (plus CB layer if augmented by specialist)

Coverage reported as SkC, FEW, SCT, BkN, OVC

VISIBILITY/RVR RVR & RVR tendency , User defined averaging

time

Visibility ( units - miles, meters) & RVR Alert\Alarms

Directional visibility (with multiple

Background luminance & Runway lights

PRESSURE & ALTIMETRY Pressure (hPa, inHg, mmHg)

QNH, QFE, QFF

Transition Level & Tendency

TEMPERATURE, DEW POINT & RELATIVE HUMIDITY Current Temperature, Dew Point Temperature

and Relative humidity

Maxima and minima during last hour

Hourly Maxima and minima for past 24 hours

Maxima and minima (so far) for current day

REAL-TIME ATC INFORMATION Wind Speed & Direction including Variables,

Gusts, Max & Min, Head/Tail, Crosswind, Squall

RVR including Variable (max & min) & Tendency, Directional

Present Weather Cloud Height, Sky Cover , Obscuration

(Vertical Visibility), Multiple Ceilometers, 3 Layers plus CB, SkC, FEW, SCT, BkN, OVC

Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Relative Humidity

QNH, QFE (hPa, inches-Hg or both)


DATA LOGGERS & LOGGING SENSORS

BuiLt to oPerate For oVer 20 YearS, Sutron Stations & Loggers have the lowest life-cycle cost & the highest roi of any hydro-met monitoring systems available.

ManuFaCtureD in the uSa BY Sutron to eXaCtinG iSo 9001 QuaLitY StanDarDS, our remote site data loggers provide long-term, reliable operation even in the harshest climates.

XPert & XLite LoGGerS/ControLLerS true multi-tasking, 32-bit operating

systems allow simultaneous communications using several paths. Data is stored in nearly indestructible flash memory. the standard ethernet Port provides ultra-high-speed data downloads & a networking option not available in other data loggers.

Monitor - SaVe $1000 / Station! Perfect for low-cost data collection,

Monitor has i/o capability for simple analog instrument weather stations & supports up to 16 SDi inputs too. With built-in tipping bucket rain gage support, Monitor is an excellent rainfall station. or use iP modems to network multiple Monitors for autoMatiC PoLLinG.

ConStant FLoW BuBBLe GaGe & reCorDer

all Bubbler Components included in one Single neMa-4 enclosure: Compressor, Sensor, Datalogger, Desiccant

StaGe DiSCharGe reCorDer the Shaft encoder that never Forgets

raDar LeVeL reCorDer unlike other radar Sensors, Sutron’s rLr

is a LoGGinG SenSor, recording data at user-selected intervals.

Sutron Builds the Highest Quality, Lowest-Power Hydro-Met Data Loggers & Logging Sensors in the World.




COMPUTING POWER fOR THE fIELD

SUTRON’S XPERT & XLITE DATALOGGERS Provide All the Power of a PC for Field Operations.

I2C bus provides almost unlimited Analog & Digital I/O expansion.

More than enough processor speed to provide real-time quality control of input & output values & real-time data processing

Multi-threaded BASIC programming allows the user to develop custom, fully independent processes for data processing or communications.

User’s Preference Setup - either graphical or easy dialog-based

Built-in Ethernet port, along with USB capability, provides storage & communications capabilities rarely available in field data loggers. The Ethernet port makes it possible to download several months of 1-second data in minutes.

True multi-tasking logger engineered to facilitate communications over several paths simultaneously! For example, an Xpert can send GOES Satellite transmissions while the user is simultaneously downloading data over a serial COM port.

XPert Packs the Power & I/O Capacity To Drive ALL TYPES OF MONITORING STATIONS & SYSTEMS including:

Synoptic

Climatic

Agri-Met

Hydro-Met

Precipitation

Airport Weather

Water Quality

Air Quality

Coastal Weather


COMMUNICATIONSSutron’s Data Loggers Work with EVERY Major Communications Technology.

Our Xpert Logger Series Was Specifically Designed to Handle Many Communication Paths - Simultaneously!

NOAA/NESDIS has given Sutron a contract to develop an add-on module to bring 2-way communications to GOES transmissions, currently 1-way only (from field to receive site). Testing begins in 2009 and it is expected to be operational in 2010.

TECHNOLOGIESGOES SATELLITE

More customers world-wide use Sutron SatLink GOES Transmitters than any other brand. The GOES System (US GOES, MTSAT, METEOSAT) is the most reliable method to obtain environmental data. And, it’s also the most cost-effective! Well-maintained GOES Systems routinely deliver 99% of collected data in near real-time.

GEOSTATIONARY WEATHER SATELLITES WORLDWIDE

EUMETSAT/INSAT/GMS/FY transmit data around the world. EUMETSAT supports Europe/Africa; INSAT - India; FY - China; & GMS - Japan/Austra-lia & Islands of the Pacific. Sutron’s Satlink is certified to operate on all weather satellites globally.

LOS RADIO (LINE-OF-SITE) IRIDIUM SATELLITE

CELL CSD/PSTN CELL GPRS/CDMA

FIBER OPTIC MODBUS/MODBUS TCP

DELIVERING THE DATADRGS, SATELLITE RECEIVE SITES, ANTENNAS

WIFI & WEB CAM In areas with Wi-Fi networks, you can have

wireless Internet access to remote field stations over the web. Inexpensive Wi-Fi to Serial or Ethernet devices allow direct connection of the sensor/data recorder.

BLUETOOTH Bluetooth uses a “dongle” connected to a Sutron product for short-range

wireless access to a station. With the dongle in place, the user can operate the station from a nearby truck, gage house, etc.

4 communications oPtionssimuLtanEousLY

Xpert Datalogger

iRiDium telephoneLand Line telephonetroll station

trolls

Fiber optic cable

1

2

3 4

satLink 2 GoEs satellite transmitter

EXAMPLE: Army Corps of Engineers - New Orleans Canals/Locks ProjectCritical Requirement to Receive Data. 4 Communications Modes: GOES Satellite, Iridium

Satellite Phone, Land Line Phone, MODBUS via Fiber Optic




teMPeSt™ LoCaL reaDout GrounD Station (LrGS) reCeiVerS provide six separate ways to access GOES information:

GOES RECEIVERSAdvanced Data Solutions on LINux™, WINDOWS™® or SOLArIS™

LrGS-DOMSAT LrIT DrGS LrGS-INTErNET NOAAPOrT DAPS

NO ONE OFFERS MORE WAYS TO COLLECT, STORE & PROCESS YOUR GOES SATELLITE DATA.

In 2008 Sutron acquired ILEX Engineering, bringing our customers true next-generation solutions to data handling problems & expanding our GOES Satellite data capabilities exponentially.

The ILEX Product Family includes Data Collection System (DCS) Products for DOMSAT, DRGS, NOAAPORT & LRIT Systems.

ILEx Data Collection Software is a perfect complement to Sutron’s xConnect Software.

6 OPTIONS FOR ACCESSING GOES DATA ILEX’S TEMPESTTM LOCAL READOUT GROUND STATION (LRGS) RECEIVERS

DOMSAT Receiver LRIT Receiver GOES Receiver Internet

ReceiverNOAAPORT Receiver

Transmission Delay A few seconds Less than a

minute Immediate A few seconds A few minutes

Geographic Coverage

Continental U.S.

Western Hemisphere

Western Hemisphere The World Continental

U.S.

GOES Channel Coverage All Channels All Channels

Purchase demodulators / each channel

All ChannelsLimited to DCPs Observed by NWS

Relies on NOAA Wallops CDA?

Yes Yes No Depends on Source Server Yes

DDS Support Client/Server Client/Server Client/Server Client/Server Client/Server

Decoder Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Computer Platform Linux Vendor’s LRIT

Platform Runs Anywhere Runs AnywhereVendor’s NOAAPORT Platform

teMPeSt Data CoLLeCtion SYSteM (DCS) tooLkitThe DCS Toolkit is a suite of software that allows you to retrieve, decode, process & store DCP data from any of the following:

Any LRGS Satellite Receiver (DOMSAT, GOES, NOAAPORT, LRIT)

Data logger files collected manually, via modem or automated download.

Iridium Short Burst Data Interface

Data available via web (data mining via web)

Custom interfaces

The Toolkit is 100% Java and will run on any modern OS. It provides a low-cost, reliable means of acquiring DCS data in near real-time.

The DeCoDeS MoDuLe included with the DCS Toolkit is a universal converter for DCP data.

It can extract time-tagged engineering-unit samples from any DCP.

It also handles fixed format or delimited data equally well.

It presents data in SHEF, SHEFIT, Human-Readable, EMIT-ASCII and other formats.

It is written in 100% pure Java so it will run on any modern computing platform.


NEW OR UPGRADED, SUTRON BUILDS OPTIMUM PERfORMANCE SYSTEMS

EvERY ELEmENT ESSENTIAL fOR SUCCESS: Environmental Sensors &

Logging Sensors

Full Range of Data Loggers

Multiple Communications Options Including the Most Widely-Used GOES Satellite Transmitter in the World

Advanced Database & Web Software

Engineering Services including Site Selection, Testing & integrating, Turn-Key Installation, Training, & Long-Term Support

BASE STATION COMPUTERSUTRON’S xCONNECT SOFTWARE

polls XLite Data Logger at the remote site & updates synoptic user interface on PC, Web, etc.

2. UHF/VHF RADIO

xLITE DATA LOggERINSIDE REMOTE

MET STATIONThe XLite sends a GOES

Satellite transmission per an assigned schedule via

SatLink Transmitter.

SENSORSAir Temperature

Relative HumidityWind Direction/Speed

Tipping Bucket Rain GagePyronometer

Barometric Pressure

INTERNET

NESDIS gOES RECEIVE SITEWALLOPS ISLAND, USANESDIS stores all GOES data on its server for one week.GOES data is downloaded from the internet.

Satellite =1-way.

Radio, Cable, Phone = 2-way.

SENSOR CONNECTORS

3. DIRECT CABLE CONNECTION

4. STANDARD TELEPHONE LINE

2. UHF/VHF RADIO

1. gOES SATELLITE

tYPiCaL Met SYSteM With MuLtiPLe CoMMuniCationS oPtionS Satellite Radio Cable Phone




fLOOD WARNINGSTRATEGIC REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

TO MAxIMIzE SAfETY

tYPiCaL FeatureS Web-based Networks (with live video web-camera)

100%-Reliable Automated Dial-Out Notification, Call-Out & Alarm System with user-selected parameters

Remote Data Logger Access via PC or PDA & the Internet

Scaleable & integrates with existing station equipment

Dynamic real-time web-reports (graphical & tabular) rainfall/water levels, alarm status, trending tables, diagnostics, etc.

Complete System Remote Diagnostics & Configuration

Multiple LOG files to share data with different agencies

Base Station Software to automatically collect & process data, generate alarms, etc.

fLOOD APPLICATIONS

Flood Warning & Flood Forecasting Systems

Storm Water Runoff

Extreme Flood Estimation

Managing Rainfall/Evaporation

Measurement & Analysis

Water & Wastewater Systems

Dams & Dambreak Analysis

Flood Frequency Analysis for Peak & Low Flows

Flood Plain: Delineating, Mapping, Mitigation Strategies

Rainfall-Runoff Modeling

Open channel hydraulics (i.e., unsteady & 2-dimensional)

Flood Studies (flood control projects, flood plain definition, real time reservoir operations)

...frOM ThE fIELD TO ThE WEb TO yOur PC, PDA Or PhONE

StAtE OF NEw MEXICO StREAMFLOw DAtA web Page Displayed on I-Phone

AUtO ALARMS & wARNINGS warning Sirens

Pager text Message

Voice & text Messages by Cell Phone

PDA, Laptop or Desktop PC Messages (email)

Virtually Unlimited Reporting Products

Handles all RtU communications - simple to satellite - with instant desktop access

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