660 results about "Weather station" patented technology

A weather station for providing weather information to a user, especially weather information related to lightning and severe thunderstorm activity. In accordance with the present invention, the weather station includes one or more antennas for receiving GPS transmissions, weather radio transmissions, and a separate radio band, such as the AM radio band for use in detecting lightning strikes. The GPS signal is used to determine the position of the user. A lightning detector coupled to the antenna for receiving the AM (or other band) signal calculates the proximity of any detected lightning strikes. The national weather radio band antenna receives information from NOAA and similar organizations and presents it to the user in the normal fashion. In accordance with the present invention, the weather station may take storm data from NOAA and compare it to lightning proximity data that it has already obtained at a particular location and present to the user an indication of the relative location of the severe thunderstorm activity and its direction of movement.

A weather station (100) for indicating weather conditions, comprises a casing (110) having a screen (120) and an internal electronic operating circuit (90). The operating circuit (90) includes at least one sensor (70) for sensing an atmospheric parameter and a microprocessor (80) for ascertaining a weather condition based on the sensed atmospheric parameter and indicating the weather condition on the screen (120). The operating circuit (90) includes a memory (60) which stores several sets of images, each set representing a corresponding variation of the weather condition, for selection by the microprocessor (80) to indicate the weather condition in the variation as ascertained in an animated representation.

Fiducial markers are printed patterns detected by algorithms in imagery from image sensors for applications such as automated processes and augmented reality graphics. The present invention sets forth extensions and improvements to detection technology to achieve improved performance, and discloses applications of fiducial markers including multi-camera systems, remote control devices, augmented reality applications for mobile devices, helmet tracking, and weather stations.

An irrigation control system and method for controlling irrigation based on weather data. Weather data such as wind, temperature, solar radiation, humidity, and rainfall, may be collected at one or more weather stations for a region. The weather data may be compiled on a computer and transmitted to a paging broadcast service. The weather data may then be transmitted by the paging broadcast service to controller interfaces associated with irrigation systems throughout the region. The controller interfaces may adjust irrigation controllers associated with the irrigation systems based on the weather data such that the proper amount of water is applied. This allows the water to be used more efficiently and the health of the landscape to be improved.

A compact, portable weather station for predicting local extreme weather conditions and for reporting remote weather conditions. The weather station has sensors for determining local temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, ambient light, and ambient static charge. A microprocessor has memory for storing data relating to past weather conditions and data processing apparatus and algorithms for determining probable developing weather conditions responsive to sensed local conditions. The weather station has a radio receiver for communicating with global weather reporting communications systems utilizing cellular communications. Operating commands, predicted local weather conditions, and remote weather conditions are annunciated in synthesized voice in any one of a variety of predetermined languages. The weather station includes voice synthesizing and recognition apparatus for annunciating verbal prompts and weather conditions, and for responding to vocal control. The weather station is formed in two separable components, one having sensors and the other having radio communications apparatus.

A system and method for accessing and displaying weather information are shown. A weather station (102) collects weather information data from sensors (108-114) using a collection program and assembles the data as a data string in a memory. A station access system (140) is used to call the weather station through the Internet (150) and a wireless cellular digital packet data system (154). The weather station downloads the weather data string to a data base (164). A user contacts the access computer through the Internet using his personal computer (170) to ask for the weather information. The information is compiled from the data base and transmitted to the user's display (172) over the Internet. A user such as a farmer can also supply the system with his particular field and crop conditions and the system will apply the conditions to the weather information and return customized crop production and control information to the farmer over the Internet.

An ET based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one environmental sensor. The ET based irrigation system further includes a stand alone ET unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the weather station. The ET unit includes programming configured to calculate an estimated ET value using a signal from the environmental sensor and to automatically modify a watering schedule of the irrigation controller through the seasonal adjust feature based on the estimated ET value to thereby conserve water while maintaining plant health.

An irrigation control module is described that adjusts a watering schedule for a connected irrigation controller based on weather data provided by a local weather station. The irrigation control module can add additional weather-based irrigation schedule adjustments to an irrigation controller that may otherwise lack the hardware (e.g., wireless transmitter, sufficient memory) and software (e.g., evapotranspiration algorithms) to store and interpret weather data from a weather station.

Watershed hydrology analysis and management process and system with a network of weather stations and artificial drainage systems with artificial and natural reservoir management through locks and pumping stations. It evaluates potential hydrologic risk in each area and analyses the possible consequences of future precipitations using simulations. To make the simulation, it calculates hydrographs for each sub-basin, streams and rivers in the basin. It simulates the behavior of the basin under different scenarios corresponding to different types of management of the operation of locks and / or pumps and compares its results in terms of loss of flooded area, economic loss in each area, loss for flooding of urban areas, etc. Optimization of the simulation through artificial intelligence (AI, meta-heuristic algorithms, neural networks, etc.) allows it to act as a search engine to find better solutions and the best configuration of resource management that allows minimizing the socio-economic impact on each basin.

The present invention relates to an adjustable tripod mechanism to support devices / transducers for scientific measurements such as weather station, radio transceiver, acoustic modem, and the like. More particularly, this invention relates to a novel, fully mechanical, and hand-operated tripod stand that incorporates (1) capability for rigidly mounting devices such as instruments, transducers, and so forth on a desired plane at a desired height for measurement of a multiplicity of parameters (e.g., meteorological parameters such as wind speed and direction, solar radiation, air temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, and the like); (2) rotation of any attached / mounted-device / transducer in the azimuthal direction at any angular intervals to facilitate orienting a mounted device in a given direction without the need for rotation of the legs of the tripod; (3) capability for partitioning of the tripod into a multiplicity of desirable smaller segments, thereby enabling its trouble-free transportation to remote areas; (4) trouble-free coupling of a plurality of separate members to achieve the desired height for the tripod stand to suit a given installation environment; (5) improvement in the efficiency of assembly, de-assembly, and packing of the tripod system by rendering its members compact and dismountable; (6) achieving elegance in appearance and ease in mounting; (7) improvement in mechanical stability as a result of an adjustably wider base area; and (8) facility for locking the tripod mechanism to the floor to prevent its translational / angular movement under drag force induced by the prevailing wind.

A soil moisture based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one soil moisture sensor. The soil moisture based irrigation system further includes a stand alone soil moisture control unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the soil moisture sensor. The soil moisture control unit includes programming configured to calculate an estimated soil moisture requirement value using a signal from the soil moisture sensor and to automatically modify a watering schedule of the irrigation controller through the seasonal adjust feature based on the estimated soil moisture requirement value to thereby conserve water while maintaining plant health.

An irrigation control system and method for controlling irrigation based on weather data. Weather data such as wind, temperature, solar radiation, humidity, and rainfall, may be collected at one or more weather stations for a region. The weather data may be compiled on a computer and transmitted to a paging broadcast service. The weather data may then be transmitted by the paging broadcast service to controller interfaces associated with irrigation systems throughout the region. The controller interfaces may adjust irrigation controllers associated with the irrigation systems based on the weather data such that the proper amount of water is applied. This allows the water to be used more efficiently and the health of the landscape to be improved.

A system and method for accessing and displaying weather information are shown. A weather station (102) collects weather information data from sensors (108-114) using a collection program and assembles the data as a data string in a memory. A station access system (140) is used to call the weather station through the Internet (150) and a wireless cellular digital packet data system (154). The weather station downloads the weather data string to a data base (164). A user contacts the access computer through the Internet using his personal computer (170) to ask for the weather information. The information is compiled from the data base and transmitted to the user's display (172) over the Internet. A user such as a farmer can also supply the system with his particular field and crop conditions and the system will apply the conditions to the weather information and return customized crop production and control information to the farmer over the Internet.

A soil moisture based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one soil moisture sensor. The soil moisture based irrigation system further includes a stand alone soil moisture control unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the soil moisture sensor. The soil moisture control unit includes programming configured to calculate an estimated soil moisture requirement value using a signal from the soil moisture sensor and to automatically modify a watering schedule of the irrigation controller through the seasonal adjust feature based on the estimated soil moisture requirement value to thereby conserve water while maintaining plant health.

A system and method for accessing and displaying weather information are shown. A weather station (102) collects weather information data from sensors (108-114) using a collection program and assembles the data as a data string in a memory. A station access system (140) is used to call the weather station through the Internet (150) and a wireless cellular digital packet data system (154). The weather station downloads the weather data string to a data base (164). A user contacts the access computer through the Internet using his personal computer (170) to ask for the weather information. The information is compiled from the data base and transmitted to the user's display (172) over the Internet. A user such as a farmer can also supply the system with his particular field and crop conditions and the system will apply the conditions to the weather information and return customized crop production and control information to the farmer over the Internet.

An ET based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one environmental sensor. The ET based irrigation system further includes a stand alone ET unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the weather station. The ET unit includes programming configured to calculate an estimated ET value using a signal from the environmental sensor and to automatically modify a watering schedule of the irrigation controller through the seasonal adjust feature based on the estimated ET value to thereby conserve water while maintaining plant health.

A tailored arrival allocation system (TAAS) for determining a descent profile for an aircraft is described. TAAS includes a gateway operable for establishing communications between TAAS and aircraft, and for establishing communications between TAAS and at least one of a source of weather data, an air traffic services facility, and an airlines operations center. A processing device communicatively coupled to the gateway calculates a descent profile based on data received from a plurality of an air traffic services coordination function, an airline operations center function, data from the aircraft, and data received from a weather station that allows the aircraft to meet the required time at one or more metering fixes during the descent. Output interfaces provide data relating to the calculated descent profile to the processing device. The gateway communicates with a flight management computer for the aircraft to incorporate the calculated descent profile onto the flight management computer.

The invention discloses a remote sensing inversion method for land surface evapotranspiration of arid and semi-arid regions. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring and processing EOS / MODISE (Earth Observing System / Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) remotely sensed data; performing the inversion of near-surface temperature and computing atmospheric transmittance; obtaining a land surface latent heat flux by solving a net radiation quantity, a soil heat flux and a sensible heat flux according to a land surface energy balance equation; and figuring out land surface evapotranspiration data according to the land surface latent heat flux. According to the invention, aiming at the characteristics of rare meteorological stations in the arid region of Northwest China, a near-surface temperature inversion model and an atmospheric transmittance model both based on remotely sensed data are established, and the temperature obtained by the remote sensing inversion is used for participating in the computation instead of the observed temperatures of the stations; therefore, requirements on meteorological and other observation data are reduced.

A meteorological information system useable by aircraft pilots and others. A receiver-calculator unit receives raw meteorological data and site-specific physical data from a ground-based weather station having a signal transmitter for broadcasting signals conveying data about weather conditions at the station. The transmitted raw data signals are received by the receiver-calculator unit in the aircraft. The receiver-calculator unit may feature an input with which the operator inputs information about the physical character, such as the heading, of the runway of interest. The receiver-calculator unit processes both received raw weather data and received site-specific physical data, and / or operator-input data, to derive additional meteorological information. The raw and derived weather conditions information is displayed by the unit to be available to the aircraft pilot during landing or take-off maneuvers. Optionally, the apparatus uses known algorithms for determining aircraft performance characteristics to process raw and derived weather and site-specific data to determine the relative safety of proposed aircraft maneuvers, such as take-off.

A weather station for measuring and indicating weather conditions, comprises a casing having a display and an electronic operating circuit in the casing for operation. The operating circuit has sensors for sensing atmospheric parameters e.g., temperature, pressure, and humidity, and a memory storing literal weather messages pertinent to the atmospheric parameters. Also included is a control unit programmed to determine degrees of the atmospheric parameters sensed by the sensors and then to retrieve weather messages corresponding to the degrees and display the messages on the display.

An ET based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one environmental sensor. The ET based irrigation system further includes a stand alone ET unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the weather station. The ET unit includes programming configured to calculate an estimated ET value using a signal from the environmental sensor and to automatically modify a watering schedule of the irrigation controller through the seasonal adjust feature based on the estimated ET value to thereby conserve water while maintaining plant health.

The invention discloses a regional automatic weather station hourly rainfall data quality control method. The method comprises the steps that a discriminant model is established according to historical data; raindrop spectrometer data, weather radar data and automatic weather station rainfall data are collated in real time; the data of a number of raindrop spectrometers are used to evaluate and revise a radar echo intensity result; the relationship between the radar echo intensity and the rain intensity is fitted according to different precipitation types; the fitted relationship is substituted into a radar quantitative estimation precipitation module to realize radar quantitative rainfall estimation to acquire hourly rainfall; the set of weather radar estimated hourly rainfall and regional automatic weather station hourly rainfall is established; and comparing with the pre-established discriminant model is carried out to judge whether the regional automatic weather station hourly rainfall data are abnormal. The automatic weather station rainfall data are accurate and reliable. The observation data quality is improved. The method lays a good foundation for weather monitoring, early warning, forecasting and other businesses.

The invention discloses a method for building a mountainous area surface temperature base line and application, and relates to the measurement and application of mountainous area surface temperature base lines. A transient temperature field distributed continuously in MODIS thermal infrared remote sensing image inversion spaces is combined with longitude and latitude raster data to build the annual average temperature linear estimation model of a weather station as the calibration model of the transient surface temperature field. The model corrects the transient temperature field to obtain the mountainous area surface temperature base line. In YunnanProvince with the mountain landform as the main landform, the temperature base line with a 90m*90m grid as a unit is built, the temperature distribution characteristics and rules of the area are reflected, and the average temperature base line value of a 90m*90m land parcel can be found out in a quantitative mode. The temperature base line is used as basic data to be combined with an expert scoring method to respectively build a Yunnan Province pine wilt disease occurrence risk pre-warning model and a Yunnan Province forest fire danger long-term forecast model.

A marine telemetry system can comprise a central processing unit (CPU) with data processing and storage capacity. The system can further comprise sensors and / or other electronic accessories such as radars, fish finders, weather stations, etc. The system can be operated by a touch-screen display. The system can perform the measuring, indication, recording and / or integration of values from the many quantities that are possible to measure by such sensors and other electronic accessories comprising part of the system. The system can have the capacity of transmitting, receiving and communicating at a distance through broadband internet accessed via various access points. In this way the user can also gain access to the World Wide Web and use its many references and information to enhance the onboard boating experience.

The invention provides a spatial valuing method of design air speed of an overhead transmission line of a coastal region. The method comprises the steps of 1) collecting, reviewing and correcting materials; 2) analyzing tropical cyclone characteristics of the coastal region; 3) calculating the theoretic long-term air speed through meteorological observatory; 4) performing supplementing calculation through an automatic meteorological observatory; 5) performing spatial interpolation and optimizing of the designed air speed. According to the method, the data of an ocean station and the automatic meteorological observatory are fully utilized, the data of the ocean station are introduced to clearly reflect the trend of the air speed changing from the coastal region to the inland; the data of the automatic meteorological observatory are introduced to provide more design air speed spatial interpolation points, and therefore the representation of the basic meteorological data of the transmission line project can be improved; in addition, the reasonability and stability of the spatial distribution of the design air speed can be ensured by the optimal space interpolation method. The spatial valuing method of design air speed of the overhead transmission line of the coastal region is accurate in air speed calculation result.

This invention discloses a thunder parameter confirm method which includes the following characteristics: it adopts computer to deal with the raw material and data from the station; a database was established based on GIS to divide the area to different grid and conduct statistic on the data from each grid and make every grid have coordinate system geographic attribute same with that of thunder automatic monitoring data and artificial weather station thunder original data; the region of grid relative to the thunder parameter is counted. The advantages are as follows: it can be applied to large area material, large sample and auto-monitored data; the operation is simple and practicable.

The invention provides an irrigation area field water-saving intelligent irrigation system, comprising: a server; a weather station connected to the server through a communication network and used to transmit irrigation area weather information to the server; irrigation data collection control terminals arranged in irrigation areas and communicated with the server through the communication network; a sprinkling irrigator; a water pump provided with a water pump electromagnetic valve arranged on the water pump to control start or stop of the water pump. The irrigation area field water-saving intelligent irrigation system can provide real-time automatic detection for the soil state of an irrigation area, proper irrigation is carried out according to the current soil state, automated intelligent irrigation is provided according to circumstances, and water is saved; labor is saved, irrigation quality is ensured, and the healthy growth of vegetation in the irrigation areas is ensured.

The invention discloses a method for deploying strong wind monitoring points on a rapid transit railway, comprising the following steps: analyzing the gale distribution characteristics and carrying out statistics on the wind speed frequency distribution under each wind direction based on the information of wind speeds, wind directions and the like of weather stations along and around the rapid transit railway line, and deploying basic monitoring points; establishing the correlationship of winds fields between any two monitoring points along the railway line under complicated terrains based on the geographic and geomorphic information, simulating the wind fields along the rapid transit railway line by adopting the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method theory and method, and deploying interpolated monitoring points; and simulating the wind fields of special road sections, and deploying special monitoring points by combining with wind tunnel tests. The method provided by the invention overcomes the defects of high cost, strong subjectivity, low accuracy and the like in the traditional method which gives priority to field survey and qualitative analysis, realizes deployment of strong wind monitoring points in rapid transit railways under various weather types and environmental conditions, has high simulation accuracy and low monitoring point deploying cost, and provides support for effective monitoring and safety running of rapid transit railways.

Method for the quantification of the fugitive gas flow from a dispersed source (A) by monitoring with a remote detection optical instrument mounted on an aircraft (UAV) which moves at a determined height along a plane (S) perpendicular to the direction of the wind field (u), such wind field being known through suitable positioning of meteorological stations within and in areas neighboring the site to be monitored according to known techniques and use of commercially available diagnostic meteorological models. By this instrument discrete vertical measurements are carried out of the fugitive gas concentration averaged over said height along the whole width (W) of the plane (S) to yield corresponding mean vertical concentration values and, according to mean wind speed values detected at said discrete vertical measurements, a value of the fugitive gas flow (Q) is obtained by integrating the product of the mean vertical concentration values and of the corresponding mean wind speed values with respect to the surface of the sampling plane (S). The obtained value of the fugitive gas flow (Q) is corrected by a corrective factor (a) obtainable by comparing concentration values obtained by direct measurements and values calculated by dispersion models.

The invention relates to an automatic prewarning method for strong storms. Doppler weather radar data is used. According to identification on storms, false combination of storms can be successfully identified by adopting a method based on mathematical morphology, namely expansion operation and corrosion operation are comprehensively used during multi-threshold identification, and relatively near storms can be separated from a storm cluster; then, according to tracking of the storms, the tracking process is greatly simplified by adopting a sequential monte carlo method, and situations of splitting, combination and leakage detection of the storms can be handled; and finally, the storms are prewarned, namely linear fitting extrapolation prewarning is realized by being combined with a motion vector field obtained by an optical flow method. According to the method, complicated situations that radar echo is densely distributed and frequently split and combined can be handled. The method has the advantages that a prewarning software system is arranged in provincial and municipal weather stations; high-convection weather prewarning service is provided; and the urgent demands for preventing and reducing disasters in China are met.