CASA MA1 Radar

The hardware and software of the MA1 radar has been developed by the students, staff, and faculty of CASA (Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, headquartered at the University of Massachusetts.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Where can I get more information?

The Principal Investigator and Director of CASA is Professor David McLaughlin (mclaughlin@ecs.umass.edu); Professor Jim Kurose (kurose@cs.umass.edu) is Co-principal Investigator and Associate Director. Associate Dean Kathy Rubin (rubin@ecs.umass.edu) and Professor Wayne Burleson (burleson@ecs.umass.edu) are the co-Directors for Education.

A short news release on the CASA system is here. A rather technical overview paper on the CASA system is here.

2. Who is involved in building and running the MA1 radar?

The MA1 radar is the first research prototype for a testbed of radars that are being deployed in southwestern Oklahoma to perform distributed, collaborative, adaptive sensing of the atmosphere. Many, many (many!) people have contributed to the radar's hardware and software control.

The hardware design team includes V. Chandrasekar (Colorado State University), Steve Fraiser (faculty), Andrew Gadbois, Edin Insanic, Francesc Junyent (graduate student), Luko Krnan (undergrad, '05), Ryan Nichols, David McLaughlin (faculty) Russ Tessier (faculty), Mike Zink (research faculty). A number of these folks are shown to the right, with four radar controllers.

The software design team includes Shereif Abdallah (graduate student), Nitin Bharadwaj (graduate student), Anna Bekkerman (technical staff), Jerry Brotzge (technical staff, U. Oklahoma), Kurt Hondl (technical staff, National Severe Storms Systems Lab), Francesc Junyent (graduate student), Israel Koren (faculty), C. Mani Krishna (faculty), Luko Krnan (undergrad, '05), Jim Kurose (faculty), Vijay Lakamaju (research fellow), Victor Lesser (faculty), Eric Lyons (technical staff), Dave McLaughlin (faculty), Dave Pepyn (technical staff), Brenda Philips (research fellow), Byron Wallace ('06), David Westbrook (technical staff), Mike Zink (research faculty)