Features

Data acquisition • Vaisala weather transmitters

• Vaisala air quality transmitters

• Vaisala surface weather stations

• Vaisala ceilometers

• Vaisala AviMetâ airport systems

• Vaisala AUTOSONDEâ systems

• Vaisala DigiCORAâ sounding systems

• Vaisala RWS200 road weather stations

• Vaisala weather radars

• Vaisala lightning detection systems

• ASCII string message parsing from

third-party surface weather sensors and

systems (when applicable)

• OGC SensorThings RESTful HTTP

service

Data post collection Vaisala surface weather stations

Data processing • Range, step, and persistence checks for

surface and road weather transmitter

and station observations

• Generic statistics, wind, sun radiation

and solar specific central calculations

• Gain and offset correction for air quality

measurements

• MGRS (NATO UTM) coordinate support

Data storage • PostgreSQL database

• Observation and event log text files

• Configurable database management

system

Time services • Time synchronization for Vaisala surface

weather stations

• NTP system time synchronization

Notification services Configurable SMTP email alerts

Remote site access • Terminal connection for weather

transmitters and stations, RDP over

HTTPS for airport, AUTOSONDEâ and

DigiCORAâ sounding systems

• Web browser connection via HTTPS to

AUTOSONDEâ and DigiCORAâ sounding

systems, RWS200, and lightning

detection systems

Metadata management Manual maintenance and device metadata

management

Web user interface • Client connection via HTTPS

• User authentication and administration

• User configurable desktop and widgets

• Map, list, graph, wind rose, text and

IFRAME widgets

• System settings

• Sound alerts, events monitoring

• Alarm acknowledgement: grant or deny

balloon release

• Observation data reports

• Data availability and validity reports

• Maintenance and device metadata

management views

• Translation for local language(s)

• Context sensitive help

GIS map service • GeoServer with OpenStreetMap world

map

• Standard map max. zoom level: 1:433K

• Enhanced map max. zoom level: 1:6759

• WMS interface for third-party map data

Data export • FTP/SFTP, WFS via HTTPS

• Automatic WMO FM 94 BUFR Ed 4 v.

29.0.0 (Fixed land station synoptic

reports, ref. 3 07 080)