Submitted by Name: PRAVESH SHUKLA Reg.No:1191110040
Department of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Engineering and technology SRM University (Under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956) SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603203 Kancheepuram Dist.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is always a pleasure to remind the fine people in the Engineering program for their sincere guidance I received to uphold my practical as well as theoretical skills in engineerin Firstly I would like to thank Dr. C.Muthamizhchelvan (Director of E&T, SRM University) for meticulously planning academic curriculum in such a way that students are not only academically sound but also industry ready by including such industrial training patterns. I would also like to acknowledge Mr. Vasudevan(Head Of Department) who continuously supported me in every possible way, from initial advice to encouragement till this date. I would also like to thanks Mr.Allwyn(Class In-charge) and Mr.G.Sarvanan(Asst.Professor) for the positive attitude he showed for my work, always allowing me to question him and giving prompt replies for my uncertainties in all the fields including educational, social and managerial work Finally, I would also like to thank Mr. D.P.Dubey (Director,IMD,Bhopal), Mr. Waheed (Scientist ) for guiding me during the course of the training.
FUNDAMENTAL OF RADAR The weather radar you see on your local TV news program, The Weather Channel, or other news channel is Doppler radar. Doppler radar emits beams (pulses) of microwave energy from a transmitter into the atmosphere (see the figure below for a diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum). When these beams collide with objects in the atmosphere such as raindrops, hail stones, snowflakes, cloud droplets, birds, insects, dust particles, trees, and even the ground, some of the energy bounces back towards the radar. A receiver on the radar then collects the reflected energy and displays it in different ways.
The electromagnetic spectrum. The microwave region of the spectrum is towards the left, where wavelengths are relatively longer and frequencies lower.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) is the nodal agency for weather service in India IMD Operates a chain of conventional weather radars along the peninsular coastline for the cyclone detection and characterization of severe weather. This chain of Cyclone Detection Radar (CDR) systems is now being replaced by Pulse Doppler Radar systems known as Doppler weather radar (DWR) systems.
BASIC TERMS OF VIEWING RADAR: Since radars have a certain spatial resolution, the radar patterns you see will look gridded and blocky, especially if you zoom in far enough on a radar image. Note that many radar programs (especially the ones you see on TV) use smoothing algorithms which smooth the blocks of data and make the data look less gridded and more natural. All of the websites mentioned in the previous section as sources for radar do not use smoothing algorithms. The view of radar looking blocky and gridded is how radar is truly displayed. Therefore, the terms about to be described only apply to radar images that are in their true form and that have not been smoothed. Each individual block, box, or square of data you see on radar is called a pixel, bin,or gate. As you move outward from a radar site along a straight line (think of moving towards the edge of the circle along a radius of it), the bins that form a connected line as you move out are called a radial.