Weather Radar System

“RAINWATCHER”

Solution Business Division

Weather Radar System –overview–
Weather radar is useful for various purposes

Safety of Airport
Prevention of Land Slide Water Resource Management

River Management Whether Weather

Forecasting
Flood Warning

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Weather Radar System –overview–
RESOLU
TYPE RANGE USAGE
-TION

S-band（2GHz） Wide area weather Typhoon, Hurricane,

Cyclone

450km Large

C-band（5GHz） Meso-scale weather, Aeronautical weather

conditions
400km Middle

X-band（9GHz） Regional Weather, Local Airport Weather

conditions

80km Small

All-in-One Mobile Type

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Comparison of Frequency Band
Band
Characteristic S C X
Detectable Particle Size Large > Small
(Resolution)
Observation Range Long > Short
Beam Width Wide > Narrow
Equipment Size Large > Small

JRC Solid-State Transmitter

Covers three types of Band

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Device for Transmitter

JRC JRC JRC

1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation
Solid-state Power
Tube/Device Magnetron Klystron
Amp. (SSPA)
for rainfall for Doppler For Doppler
Usage
measurement measurement measurement
Periodic
1 - 2 years 2 - 4 years Not necessary
replacement

Example

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Comparison of Transmitter

Example: S-Band
Magnetron Klystron Solid-state
Expected Life 8,000 hours 20,000 hours 128,000 hours
Span

Replacement One (1) year Three (3) years Fifteen (15) years
Cycle

Replacement Two (2) hours by Three (3) hours by One minute

Time two technicians two technicians (None stop operation)

Transmitting 500kW 500kW 10kW

Peak Power (equivalent
approx.900kW)

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Comparison of Running Cost

Klystron
Klystron
($100,000 /
3year)

Magnetron

Initial Cost Solid-State

of the Radar Amplifier
System Magnetron
($50,000 / 1year)

Solid-State :
Periodic replacement unnecessary.
Year
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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Weather Radar System –overview–
Lineup of RAINWATCHER Series

JMA-254
JMA-912
S-band
X-band

JMA-540 C-band

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Benefits Provided by JRC
Solid-state radar system saves your maintenance cost

Low Power
Long Life Consumption Easy
Span Maintenance

High Low Cost

of Spare
Reliability Parts
Save
Pulse Compression Maintenance
ion Solid-state Radar
Cost

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Benefits Provided by JRC
Combining RAINWATCHER series with J-BIRDS is useful for various purposes!

Control / Monitoring

Various Products !
RAW Data For Weather Forecasting
- Rain Tracking & Centroid Tracking Support
Radar Workstation for Forecasting
- Strong Rainfall and Wind Warning of
Specified District with text output
JMA-912 JMA-540 JMA-254 - Severe Weather Analysis, Hail Detection
- etc
RAINWATCHER J-BIRDS
For Safety of Airport
- VAD, VVP, Wind Direction and Wind Speed
- Wind Shear Detection & Analysis, Layer
Turbulence
- etc
RAW Data
(Net CDF, HDF5, etc)
Another radar

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Benefits Provided by JRC
J-BIRDS software provides various products

PPI RTI Wind Speed / Direction

CAPPI 3D Composite

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JRC’s Comprehensive System

For Flood Forecasting

- 10min Rainfall
RAW - 60min Rainfall
Data - 24hr Rainfall
- Continuous Rainfall
- etc

For Landslide Forecasting

- 1.5hr half-life period effective rainfall
- 72hr half-life period effective rainfall
JMA-912 JMA-540 JMA-254 - Degree of Risk

For Other Solutions such as

RAINWATCHER - Dam Data Inflow
- etc
Rainfall
Data Data

Calibration

Rain gauge System J-BIRDS

Radar Data Processing

Server

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Weather Radar System –Features-

・High accuracy rainfall sensor

・Short start up time, No tuning and or pre-heating necessary

・Low power consumption

・Higher reliability and performance and low maintenance cost

・J-BIRDS Software Package provides optimized observation

data for easier meteorological analysis

・Open File Format

Support Data Type: NetCDF, BUFR, HDF5, XML, ASCII, UF,
NEXRAD Level2, GRIB2

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Weather Radar System –Specification-
The specifications of RAINWATCHER series are shown
below
JMA-254 (S-band)

• Fully solid state technology

• Observation radius: 450km @23dBz
• Antenna diameter: Approx. 5m

JMA-540 (C-band)

• Dual polarization with fully solid state technology

• Observation radius: 400km @23dBz
• Antenna diameter: Approx. 4.3m

JMA-912 (X-band)

• Dual polarization with fully solid state technology

• Observation radius: 80km @23dBz
• Antenna diameter: Approx. 1.2m

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 Implementation Time Schedule
MONTH
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
ITEM
(A) Contract with Client
Order to Manufacturer(s)
(B) Site Survey

(C) Obtaining the License of

C/X-Band Frequency
(D) Manufacturing
(include packing)
(E) Factory Acceptance Test
(include factory training)
(F) Shipping

(G) Custom Clearance

(H) Inland Transportation

(I) Construction of Facilities

(J) Installation and Adjustment Works ROC

1) Installation C-
R
X

2) Adjustment C
R
X

3) Data Communication C
R
X

4) Site Acceptance Test C

R
X

(K) Test-run and Guidance

1) Composition of All Radar Data C
R
X

2) Total Observation Control C

R
X

3) Test Running C
R
(System Commissioning) X

4) Guidance and Training C

R
X

(L) Final Inspection

※ This is a temporally schedule and it might be changed depending on procurement status of parts.

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Installation Record
For Japan Meteorological Agency Deliveries
C-band Weather Doppler Radar --- 16sets
C-band Doppler Radar for Airport
Weather--- 1 sets
C-band SS Polarimetric Radar
for Airport Weather--- 3 sets

Total : 20 JRC radars / 29 Radars

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 Installation Record
For Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
C-band Radar Rain Gauge – 5 sets
C-band SS Polarimetric
Radar Rain Gauge – 2 sets

Total : 7 JRC radars / 26 Radars Pinneshiri

Hakodake

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Otobedake ▲
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Takashiroyama ▲ ▲ ▲ Muriyama
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Myoujinyama ▲
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Gozaisyo

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 Installation Record
For Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
x-band Multi Parameter Radar --- 11 sets
Kitahiroshima
x-band Radar Rain Gauge --- 1 set

Total : 12 JRC radars / 39 Radars Ishikari

Ujiie
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Yamaga ▲ Yattajima
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Unzen
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Uki Funabashi

Shizuokakita Fujinomiya Kanukiyama

& Hamamatsu
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Installation Record (Over Seas)
1983JMA-22 Indonesia Tasikmalaya X-band
1984JMA-22 Indonesia Yogyakarta X-band
1989JMA-45 Pakistan Islamabad C-band
1989JMA-46 Pakistan Karachi C-band
1994JMA-51 Philippine Virac S-band
1994JMA-51 Philippine Aparri S-band
1994JMA-51 Philippine Guiuan S-band
1999JMA-85 Pakistan D. I. Khan C-band
Pakistan 1999JMA-46 Pakistan Rhmyr Khan C-band
2005JMA-311 Laos Vientiane C-band
2006JMA-244 Bangladesh Cox’s Bazar S-band
2007JMA-244A Bangladesh Khepupara S-band
2008JMA-244B Bangladesh Moulvibazar S-band
Bangladesh
Viet Nam 2012JMA-254 Philippine Virac (Rep.) S-band
2013JMA-254 Philippine Aparri (Rep.) S-band
2015JMA-254 Philippine Guiuan (Rep.) S-band
2015JMA-912 Philippine Mobile (Manila) X-band
2015JMA-268 Myanmar Kyaukpyu S-band
2015JMA-912 Philippine Mobile X-band
Laos 2015JMA-912 Philippine Mobile X-band
Myanmar 2016JMA-268
2017JMA-268
Myanmar
Myanmar
Yangon
Mandalay
S-band
S-band
2017JMA-268 Viet Nam Phu Lien S-band
2017JMA-268 Viet Nam Vinh S-band
: X-band Philippines 2018JMA-268 Pakistan Islamabad S-band
2018JMA-268 Mauritius Trou aux cerfs S-band
: C-band
: S-band Indonesia Since 2012, Solid-state
radars have been
delivered
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 Terima Kasih Atas Perhatiannya
(Thanks for your kind attention)
Contact info :
PT. JRC Spectra Indonesia Sales Engineer
Albert Gunawan
President Director E-mail: albert@japanradio.co.id
Masami KAN
E-mail: kan@japanradio.co.id http://www.jrc-si.co.id/

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