IRIS Focus

Making the most out of your remote sensors

With the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events due to climate change, understanding ever-changing meteorological phenomena is crucial in order to anticipate potential risks to people, activities and goods.

Having the ability to quickly analyze detailed weather data and generate real-time weather-related alerts to take well-informed decisions is stronger than ever.

With IRIS Focus, Vaisala is leading the evolution of remote sensing software while combining data from Weather Radars, Wind Lidars and Lightning at a glance. The software provides the user with a comprehensive view to help better understand weather hazards such as storms, windshear, turbulence, precipitation and more, for:

• Earlier extreme weather and storm predictions and analyses
• Quicker decision-making for events that may impact your environment
• More accurate precipitation classification

IRIS Focus offers new ways of observing data for better characterization and understanding of weather hazards, storm tracking and lightning classification.

IRIS Focus includes a suite of products that are available on-demand. This allows the users to get more out of their data by having the ability to configure the product parameters and visualization details to suit their needs.

By way of the multi-panel display, users can integrate various data sources from one or multiple remote sensors (Weather Radars, Wind Lidars or Lightning) and have the option to overlay within one view or separate the products in up to four individual windows. Such function allows the user to visualize the data together all at once.

Designed with the user in mind, IRIS Focus provides various easy-to-use functions, including storming tracking, nowcasting, and the cross-section tool, to enable better understanding of storm movement and structure for more accurate forecasts and earlier watches and warnings.

IRIS Focus provides the user with an elevated capability for decision-making when it matters most. From combining various weather datasets to determine storm cell centers to offering a full suite for alerting/notification, IRIS Focus does it all.

Configure events/alerts with specified alarm conditions for each area of interest with lightning data, weather radar data, or both.

Automatically detect weather hazards as they appear

Create your own areas of interest with user-specified shapes, as well as areas of interest relative to customer-supplied assets.

Receive a notification when a significant weather event appears in your area of interest -- even on your mobile device by way of email or SMS notification.