"Initial research shows the airborne sensor makes a 10 to 20 percent
improvement in forecast error in numerical models and that's just with
temperature," said Taumi Daniels, NASA project leader.
The program is part of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.nasa.

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JAMI will transmit 2-km infrared data in normal operating modes and can
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JAMI's high radiometric sensitivity and accurate calibration enable much
better cloud top and sea surface temperature measurements, which will improve
quantitative precipitation forecasts along with aviation and shipping weather
forecasts, especially for regions outside the range of surface-based radars.0B and 13,000 employees, Raytheon Space and
Airborne Systems is a leading provider of sensor systems and is headquartered
in El Segundo, Calif.

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, with additional facilities in Goleta, Calif.

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, led the team
that designed , built and equipped dozens of Mesaba Airlines aircraft with the
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Report instrument. "Our imager is characterized by an elegant
architecture and the use of newer technology for design simplicity and
superior performance.; Forest,
Miss.

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Improved environmental monitoring provided by JAMI will reduce the impact
and cost of natural hazards such as typhoons and forest fires by enabling the
best possible warnings and providing information to minimize damage and allow
most efficient evacuation.

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The sensor also
measures humidity, pressure, winds, icing and turbulence with the help of
location, time and altitude provided by built-in Global Positioning System
technology.C.aerospace.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2004 sales of $20.

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also enable identification of smaller scale phenomena such as fog, cloud-top
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The airline mainly
flies shorter commuter routes.
Industry, meteorologists , researchers and scientists are part of the
partnership analyzing data.; Federal Aviation Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Washington; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder,
Colo. The program is developing principles, guidelines, concepts,
tools, methods , and technologies to address four areas: aircraft aging and
durability; integrated intelligent flight deck technologies; integrated
vehicle health management; and integrated resilient aircraft control .

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The instrument allows aircraft to automatically sense and report
atmospheric conditions .
For information about NASA's aeronautics research on the Web, visit:

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Observations are sent by satellite to a ground data
center that processes and distributes up-to-date weather information to
forecasters and pilots. When equipped with the weather sensor, regional aircraft, which
typically fly below 25,000 feet, can provide more information. EL SEGUNDO, Calif.

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There are only
70 weather balloon sites in the continental United States that collect
temperature, wind and moisture data from twice-daily atmospheric soundings.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington,
Mass.gov

For information about NASA and agency programs on the web, visit:

http://www.; Dallas, McKinney and Plano, Texas; and several international locations.647.

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The focus of the program is on the way vehicles are designed, built, operated,
and maintained.

Providing weather reports, forecasts, current conditions, and warnings as well as access to its related meteorological topics.

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The information
the team collects can also benefit weather models and forecasts, because it
increases the number of observations in the lower atmosphere.
The experiment added 800 more daily atmospheric soundings. MTSAT fulfills a meteorological mission by providing
timely, high quality, full-disk multispectral imagery for operational weather
needs in Japan, East Asia and Australia, along with a civil aviation mission
by relaying digitized voice data and other data for aircraft along with radio
navigation signals.

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The partners include: AirDat L.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass.

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NASA Test Provides Pilots With Better Weather Forecasts

"JAMI was successfully produced on an extremely challenging schedule, and
we 're proud to see it now being deployed," said Ron Ambort, general manager of
Santa Barbara Remote Sensing.
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WASHINGTON, Weather forecasters in the middle of
the United States are making better local predictions for pilots and others
thanks to an airborne sensor being tested by NASA's Aviation Safety Program., Morrisville,
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, March 29, 2005 -- Raytheon Company's
Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imager has been successfully launched on
board Japan's Multi-functional Transport Satellite-1 Replacement (MTSAT-1R),
built by prime contractor, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), and is now providing
new images of earth.
The JAMI subsystem was developed and produced by the Santa Barbara Remote
Sensing division of Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business and was
provided to prime contractor Space Systems Loral for the Japanese MTSAT-1R
satellite in June 2003."
JAMI breaks through limitations of earlier geosynchronous weather imagers
with significant improvements in many areas, including unprecedented spatial
resolution , radiometric sensitivity and calibration.9067

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Mesaba is a
Northwest Airlink affiliate , headquartered in Minneapolis.
Large airliners fly above most weather and collect limited atmospheric
data. In wintertime it really helps in
determining whether a storm will bring sleet, freezing rain or snow," he
added.C.

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, Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.

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; Meteorological Service of Canada, Montreal; UK MET Office, London; and
Meteorological Network of Europe, Toulouse, France.

JAMI introduces the next generation of operational GEO (Geosynchronous
Earth Orbit) weather imagers and provides enhanced spatial sampling,
radiometric sensitivity, Earth coverage and 24-hour observation capability.5-km visible band data on demand. Higher spatial resolution data
improves cloud edge detection and tracking, which results in more accurate
wind drift information, improved capability to describe and forecast behavior
of rapidly evolving weather systems, and improved typhoon tracking.2 billion, is an
industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.

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Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.

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"In summertime its best use is in determining
if and when thunderstorms might develop.

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Sabrina Steele
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"Meteorologists at the National Weather Service have found the
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Report to be useful in forecasting
severe thunderstorms, dense fog, precipitation types of winter storms and low-
level wind shear," said Richard Mamrosh, National Weather Service
meteorologist in Green Bay, Wis.

Raytheon Meteorological Imager Providing Images From Japanese Weather Satellite

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