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Page 1: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Additional Areas

Mike ZinkCASA Deputy Director

University of MassachusettsNSF Year 9 Visit, July 2nd, 2012

Page 2: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Overview• Multifunction MC&C• Infrasound• SBIR submissions• US Ignite/GENI

– Time series data streaming – MC&C in the cloud

• TropiNet• Cameras

Page 3: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

How can we optimize system for the best response?

Page 4: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Multifunction MC&C

• So far, MC&C only used for– Radars– Control based on detection of atmospheric

phenomena• Detection of low-flying aircraft• Control of camera networks

– E.g., use radar data to visually verify potential flooding

Page 5: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Low Flyers

• Integrated into MC&C• Initial tests in testbed

• UAV detect and avoid

Page 6: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Infrasound• Two infrasound monitoring stations were deployed

in the spring of 2011.– One in Cyril, Oklahoma (designated KCYR)

and one in Rush Springs, Oklahoma (designated KRSP).

– The two stations were ~30km apart.– The infrasound monitoring stations were

collocated with two of CASA’s mechanically scanned X-band weather radars.

• 71 days of pressure data was collected at both stations.

• 20 days of wind speed and direction data was collected at the Cyril station.

Cyril

Rush Springs

Page 7: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Infrasound

• Spectrogram– data was

unremarkable

• Cohereogram– strong coherence

in the frequency band < ~1.5Hz.

Page 8: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Infrasound

Radar image from: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/imagearchive/

Page 9: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

SBIR Submissions• Phase-tilt radar

– Work with FirstRF (in the process of becoming an associate member) to improve commercial phase-tilt antenna design

• Ridgeline– CASA spin-off, licensing CASA technology and

implementing it in their commercial offering• EWR

– As CASA members already licensed algoritms.– Implementation of algorithms

Page 10: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

MA1

• Second year of operations to support EMs on UMass Amherst campus

• Joint efforts to secure funding for continued operation of MA1

• Continued use for testing of new software

Page 11: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

US Ignite/GENI• US Ignite

– applications and services for ultra-fast broadband and software-defined networks

– Foster creation of novel applications that will transform healthcare, education and job skills training, public safety, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

• GENI– providing collaborative and exploratory environments for

academia, industry and the public to catalyze groundbreaking discoveries and innovation in these emerging global networks

Page 12: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Time Series

Operations Control Center

Operations Control Center

Short-term Forecast in the Cloud

Short-term Forecast in the Cloud Long-term,

Large-scaleForecast

Long-term, Large-scaleForecast

End Users:Public, NWSEM,MediaIndustry

End Users:Public, NWSEM,MediaIndustry

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to n * 150 Mbps

Page 13: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

NowCast in the Cloud

• CASA involved in Alpha Demo at GENI Engineering Conference in D.C. (Nov. 2010)

• Today: only a few large NEXRAD radars (100s)• Tomorrow: many (1000s) smaller, less expensive radars

produce data close to the ground where weather happens• Requires a flexible infrastructure for coordinated

provisioning of shared sensing, networking, storage, and computing resources on-demand

Issues:• System integration• Cloud designed for persistent, web-based

services• Data staging• Sufficient on-demand bandwidth into the

cloud

Page 14: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

NowCast in the Cloud

• Automated initialization of Nowcast in EC2 by MC&C

• Analyzed network capabilities• Analyzed compute capabilities

Instances Memory (GB)

Disk (GB) Exec. Time(seconds)

Total time(seconds)

EC2 7.5 850 71.98 95.08

Rackspace 8 320 102.48 120.33

GeniCloud 8 20 67.37 78.60

ExoGENI 8 20 56.10 72.07

Page 15: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Cloud Sensing / Sensor Cloud

• Provide sensing, networking, and compute resources on demand

• Rapid provision and release• Opportunistic sensing:

– Sensing information from cell phones– Camera data

Page 16: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

TropiNet• Drafting an MOU between UPRM, CSU, and

UMass to control TropiNet radars with MC&C• Terrain and climate will pose new challenges

to MC&C

Courtesy of the NSF TropiNet project

Page 17: Additional Areas Mike Zink CASA Deputy Director University of Massachusetts NSF Year 9 Visit, July 2 nd, 2012

Cameras• Discussion with ITT Exelis to use their DFW

camera network• Goal:

• Weather validation• Monitor public response• First steps to put feedback loop around

public response• What do you see in the morning news?