IRIS Tasks

A radar task is a set of operating parameter configurations for the radar antenna, transmitter, receiver, and signal processing systems. The data acquired during the task are stored on disk as ingest files, which serve as the data base for radar product generation.

Examples of tasks include:

• Surveillance PPI scan at a single elevation angle.
• Complete volume scan at multiple elevation angles.
• PPI sector scan at either single or multiple elevation angles.
• RHI scan at either single or multiple azimuth angles.

Use the TASK Configuration menu to specify the antenna scanning, as well as other radar parameters, such as pulse width, PRF, number of samples to average, and the type of data to process such as Z, V, W, ZDR, RhoHV, or PhiDP).

Use the TASK Scheduler menu to execute tasks. The TASK Scheduler supports hybrid tasks, made up of multiple sub-tasks.