Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS)

MDCS 13.1 AviTerm ver 1.0


Salient Features:

- Comprehensive representation of real-time and historical meteorological
observations at aerodromes

- Displays diagnostics of data-logger and sensor errors

- Provision to summarize Present Weather conditions with an easy to use User
Interface

- Provision to create standard WMO reports for METAR and SPECI

- Graphical representation of Weather characteristics, Runway Visual Range and
Cloud Coverage conditions

- Provision to export data in standard CSV format or XML format for advanced
processing or integration with 3rd party software

- 7 days Data logging capability on the MDCS unit


Kartographers MDCS 13.1 AviTerm ver 1.0 is an Automated Weather Observation
system to monitor the current weather conditions at aerodromes. The data
processing, archiving, presentation and notification capabilities can serve as a
decision support system for the aerodrome operations. The MDCS data logging
unit collects data from analog and digital input sources and transmits the raw and
processed output to the AviTerm Controllers

The AviTerm application further processes and displays the Wind Speed, Wind
Direction, Pressure, Humidity and Temperature, Runway Visual Range and Cloud
Coverage data onto various PC Terminals.


The AviTerm Software comprises of Centralized Processing Unit that also runs the
AviTerm Application for PC display Terminals. Additionally, two services run 24 x 7
to communicate with the MDCS data logging unit and perform data validations.
These units collectively work to display the meteorological observations and their
graphical representations onto various PC Terminals.


The AviTerm application runs on the Windows environment using SQL databases to
assist in storing and distributing historical meteorological observations.


MDCS 13.1 Specifications:

- Interface: 20x2 LCD display

- 4 Analog and 2