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Used to download and display meteorological and oceanographic products used to analyze and forecast conditions.
JMV/METCAST
Is used to plot the most fuel-efficient route for pilots to fly.
Optimum Path Air Routing System (OPARS)
An infrared device used to determine surface temperature, specifically sea-surface temperature.
Hand-held IR Thermometer
Provides a display of radar detection of communication coverage in the vertical plane
Electromagnetic Coverage Diagram
Devices used to give a read out of the dry bulb and the wet bulb temperature.
Thermometers
An oceanographic device for flow measurement by mechanical, tilt, acoustical or electrical means.
Current Gauge
A large disc used to calculate the dew point using the wet bulb and dry bulb, and calculate the relative humidity using the dew point and dry bulb. It can convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
CP-165/UM Psychometric Computer
The device that transmits information from the sensors to the indicator showing wind direction and speed.
MORIAH Wind Measuring system (UMQ-5 of B-3 Wind Measuring system)
A hand-held device used to read and determine wind direction and wind speed.
AN/PMQ-3 Hand-held Anemometer
A geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information maintained by the Environmental Systems Research Institute.
ArcGIS
Was developed as a global tide-forecasting system that can be set up rapidly for any user-specified location(s) to predict the water-level elevation and depth-averaged ocean currents.
TIDES (PCTides)
A small disc used to calculate the density altitude by using the temperature, altimeter setting, and station elevation. It may also be used to compute density ratio, absolute density, vapor pressure, and specific humidity.
CP-718/UM Density Altitude Computer
The reduction in power density (attenuation) of EM waves as it propagates through space; influenced by terrain contours, environment, medium, and distance between transmitter and receiver, and the height and location of antennas.
Electromagnetic Path Loss
Piece of equipment designed to serve meteorological and aviation observing needs including the acquisition, processing, distribution, transmission, and documentation of data.
Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)
Database of digital terrain files used for programs such as AREPS and GFMPL to calculate the effects of propagation along the sea transitioning to land.
Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)
A data base which supports high frequency performance prediction capability for sonar applications.
High Frequency Bottom Loss (HFBL)
A database of historical (climo) data for use in exercise planning shows trends in a certain area over the course of years. Can be used when the exercise is in its planning stages, not during the actual exercise.
Generalized Digital Environmental Model (GDEM)
A Geographical Information System (GIS) used for the storage, retrieval, mapping and analysis of geographic data for command and control systems within the Navy, converting data into actionable information for the warfighter.
EIPB-C (Environmental Intelligence Preparation of Battlespace-Collector)
A set of software components allowing acoustic performance predictions to be done independently of display resources, using as many or as few processors as required to accomplish a calculation in a tactically acceptable amount of time.
STK: STAPLE (Scalable Tactical Acoustic Propagation Loss Engine) Tool-Kit
This program allows for the creation, display, and editing of a digital beach chart as surveyed by Special Forces personnel. This chart, as surveyed by a sea-air-land team, consists of an array of soundings in the surf zone, a set of observed shore features, and other information.
BSC
A self-propelled free-diving vehicle used for mission support for hydrographic surveys, harbor security operations, debris field mapping, environmental monitoring, fishery operations, scientific sampling and mapping, as well as search and salvage operations.
LBS-AUV: The Littoral Battlespace Sensing – Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Is designed for long duration deployments and cover large distances using power minimizing propulsion methods like buoyancy engines. They traverse entire oceans while cutting a saw-tooth pattern through the water column, resurfacing periodically to communicate with satellites and transmit water column data back to shore.
LBS-UUV, Glider: Littoral Battlespace Sensing- Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, Glider
The first commercially developed family of low-cost system ideal for coastal applications such as sensor development, general survey work, sub-surface security, research and environmental monitoring.
IVER 3 UUV System
A net-centric system that modernizes and integrates legacy stove-pipe METOC capabilities to the warfighter including: • METOC data download, management, enhancement, and visualization • METOC forecaster toolkit delivery • Electromagnetic propagation and electro-optic range prediction • Littoral environmental condition predictions • Solar/lunar predictions
Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System – Next Generation (NITES-Next)
Used to calculate electromagnetic propagation through the atmosphere given current conditions. Heavily dependent on user ingested information on atmospheric conditions, radar types/heights and platform types. METOC inputs/output must be tailored to provide the best possible product for the war fighter.
AREPS (Advanced Refractive Effects Prediction System)