What My Own Radar Is


		In a Nutshell MyOwnRadar is a powerful computer software application that processes raw Doppler weather radar data into a wide variety of easy-to-understand, information-rich and potentially life-saving images for viewing on the World Wide Web or on a local IntraNet. Everything from snow flurries and drizzle to large hail and tornados can be detected, located, and displayed in real-time. Technical Requirements MyOwnRadar operates on a Pentium-class computer running Windows 2003, XP, or VISTA with at least 512 MB of memory. The computer requires a broadband Internet connection in order for MyOwnRadar's built-in ftp engine to upload its images to a website. MyOwnRadar can also download its image files to a local hard drive for viewing by multiple users connected to an internal computer network such as can be found at local Emergency Management Offices or at Public Schools. Interactivity Any standard web browser can be used to view the images, and they can be displayed in an interactive or stand-alone format. For interactivity a small Java applet or FLASH swf file is required that resides on the client's web server (or a shared hard drive for an Intranet). No additional plugin is required for the stand-alone imagery. With the Java applet or FLASH file, the various radar images can be overlaid onto high resolution topographic background maps either one at a time, or multiple overlays can be viewed at the same time. Geographical information such as state and county lines, highways and their labels, county names, regional landmarks, etc,. can be toggled on and off in order to achieve a specific "look" to the radar display. Zooming and panning are also possible. Another advantage to using the applet or swf file is that the radar images are automatically updated in the background without the need to have the entire web page refreshed. The end user can also force the applet to refresh all the images with a click of a button to ensure the latest information is always being displayed. The stand-alone images are, by definition, less interactive, but they are extremely useful to provide a quick overview of the precipitation patterns across a given area. They can be used as full screen, high resolution images, but they also lend themselves for use as thumbnail navigation icons or for mobile phone applications. Customization Just abouty every aspect of MyOwnRadar can be customized in order to generate images to exact client specifications including the size of the viewing window, color scheme, font selection, graphic icons and logos and choice of radar products. MyOwnRadar gives your web visitors or Intranet users the ability to control the output on the radar screen and to take part in a highly engaging interactive experience that serves a very real and practical purpose: scanning the skies 24/7 in order to see what kind of weather conditions are approaching and whether the situation calls for taking appropriate action should threatening weather be heading their way.