Information and transportation applications of weather technologies
Information and transportation applications of weather technologies
Information and transportation applications of weather technologies
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Scope/Definitions> Weather Informatics– Includes the combination <strong>of</strong> detection, processing, interpretation,formatting, distribution <strong>and</strong> use <strong>of</strong> <strong>weather</strong> information in realtimefor surface <strong>transportation</strong> operations <strong>and</strong> management– Utilizes: in-situ sensing (surface stations); remote sensing(satellite, radar, lidar, etc); forecasting <strong>and</strong> nowcasting products:data networking; <strong>and</strong> sending, receiving <strong>and</strong> storing informationvia telecommunication devices (telematics), all combined tocomprise practical elements <strong>of</strong> an Intelligent TransportationSystem (ITS)….leading to the concept <strong>of</strong>:> Transportation Weather Informatics (TWI)– Confluence <strong>of</strong> information derived from the elements <strong>of</strong> WeatherInformatics to integrate, format <strong>and</strong> communicate usefulinformation that meets the primary <strong>and</strong> secondary needs <strong>of</strong> thesurface <strong>transportation</strong> community2
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