Real Time Overview

Real Time Display (RTD) is a diagnositc and monitoring tool that allows you to instantaneously view data, ray by ray, as they are acquired.

The rays of data (for example, 1°) are shown on the display as the antenna scans with no perceptible delay. Both PPI and RHI display styles are supported.

A real time display is used in a variety of ways:

• Observers: View immediate feedback on the weather situation.

• Manual task operation: Provides radar operators with immediate feedback during manual antenna control (for example, using handwheels or the Antenna utility).

  This is useful for probing rapidly changing weather features such as a developing hook echo, or weak echo region.

• System managers: Provides feedback for tuning signal processor parameters.
• System managers and radar operators: Provides ways to verify that the system operates properly and generates high-quality data.

Real time display is not practical for remote unattended radar sites with low-bandwidth network connections (for example, <100 KBytes/sec).