AMS - Gematronik signs contracts for Mozambique and Norway

AMS - Gematronik has signed a contract with the National Meteorological Institute of Mozambique, via FORECA of Finland, to supply a Doppler weather radar. The METEOR 500C magnetron-based C-Band radar will be delivered in early 2004 and will be installed in Xai Xai, approximately 150 km North of Maputo.

The award follows on from a previous contract signed in April 2002 with the National Meteorological Institute of Mozambique, SAINCO, to supply a Doppler weather radar - METEOR 500C magnetron-based C-Band. The radar will be delivered in November 2003 and installed at the airport in Beira. The two contracts are worth approximately 2.5 million Euro.

Both projects will help improve the quality of weather forecasts for the general public as well as specialised forecasts for flood forecasting and shear wind detection for aviation.

AMS - Gematronik has also been awarded a contract by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute for upgrading the radar data processing part of an existing Doppler Weather Radar in Oslo.

The AMS - Gematronik radar data processing system Rainbow will be used as the offline processing part and guarantees full support of the complete meteorological product generation package. Rainbow will be extended by means of a scaleable and platform independent software front-end (Linux, Unix, Windows) called ECONV which is prepared to convert the new HDF5 based volume data standard to Rainbow 3 as well as to the new XML based Rainbow 5 standard. Additionally ECONV will use an improved volume slice management and an interface in order to provide a higher degree of flexibility.

The Rainbow-ECONV package guarantees a cost-effective and open upgrade of the weather radar data processing part in terms of using modern radar data processing and communication technologies and interfaces.

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