Matthew Kallmyer, Director of the Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency (AFCEMA)
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OBSERVE. PREPARE. PROTECT. Effective Meteorological Early Warning Systems (EWS) are critical for disaster risk reduction around the world. Powered by Earth Networks proprietary weather and lightning observation networks, the Early Warning Services provide comprehensive solutions for worldwide severe weather alerting and forecasting.
O V E R V I E W Earth Networks’ Early Warning System provides a cost-effective, integrated approach, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of warnings and forecast information. This approach, which combines a number of Earth Networks severe weather solutions including Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts, Sferic Maps, Sferic Mobile and PulseRad, produces highly advanced weather information.
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( A F C E M A ) KEY FEATURES TRACKING, ALERTING AND PROTECTING MADE EASY • Weather and This array of high impact weather stream intelligence is driven by real- Lightning Detection time forecasting, mapping, alerting and path tracking engines. With • PulseRad customized Sferic Maps and Sferic Data solutions, critical operational • ENcast data is delivered across multiple industries. • DTAs • Sferic Maps Weather & Lightning Detection • Sferic Data Sferic Data • Sferic Mobile PulseRAD® OBSERVE ENcast® Sferic Mobile
DTA Sferic Maps PROTECT PREPARE
Weather and Lightning Detection • P o • Hyper-local, real-time w observations critical for e • Advanced severe weather alerting r • Global forecasting e d PulseRad • Radar alternative b y • Global high resolution coverage • Updates four times faster E than traditional radar N T EnCast L • Leading cloud-based forecasting tool N • Leverages hyper-local and ingested data from the world’s best weather network • Utilizes top performing models to deliver the most accurate forecast
Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts (DTA) • Deliver advanced warning for the most dangerous storms • Most critical type of severe weather alert Sferic Maps • Configurable data and multiple delivery methods • Most advanced weather visualization tool • Updatable maps and self-managed layers Sferic Mobile • Share real-time views with colleagues in the field • Integration of alerts and weather data • Tiered packages • Push notifications
Sferic Data • Contextual maps • Alert rule management • Real-time bulk data access • High frequency push updates every 5 minutes