HURRTRAK
- Advanced 2008
The following is a description of the 2008 product as of early February.
Development work will continue until late April
PC Weather Products, is a market leader in the design,
development and delivery of Hurricane tracking, analysis and planning software. We have worked with experts in the Disaster Planning, Emergency
Management and Insurance Industry to develop HURRTRAK Advanced...a
product designed for the professional whose work demands the highest level of
information possible regarding hurricanes and their impact. It contains
all of the features of our popular HURRTRAK RM/Pro system in addition to adding
the capabilities to Import and Export ESRI Shape files, import your custom
locations from a comma delimited or Shape file, Sea/wave height estimates and
shape file impact reports. Additional features like
Advanced Wise Estimation (Patent Pending), Zip Code Impact Reporting, sophisticated Historical Analysis, the SLOSHView Inundation capability and
much more make this an essential tool for the professional who simply wants the
"top of the line" hurricane tracking and analysis software available.
Finally,
HURRTRAK Advanced interfaces with HURRTRAK-ONLINE
service (additional yearly charge) which provides the latest storm
information and forecast data on a real time basis.
PC Weather Products provides products and services to a wide
range of business and government customers. Our Hurricane Tracking and Analysis Systems
have assisted emergency planning professionals around the world for years.
Now, PC Weather Products is pleased to announce
HURRTRAK-Advanced 2008
It includes all of the features of
HURRTRAK-RM/Pro...
(click here to examine the extended capabilities of RM/Pro)
PLUS the
capabilities to:
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Expanded Storm Surge MEOW Data.
SLOSH
MEOW data is now available for users of the HURRTRAK Advanced system. This
allows the user to view storm surge information that is specific to a
storm’s strength and direction of motion. Both the standard display and our
exclusive “inundation analysis” is available with this data.
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SLOSH Storm Surge Inundation Analysis
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ESRI Shape File Import - Hurrtrak Advanced allows
the user to overlay their Shape files on top of our Hurricane Tracking
Maps as well as providing the ability to report on the GIS "points" in these
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Shape File Export - Hurrtrak Advanced can
export several different types of storm related data to a shape file format.
These files can then be used in your GIS application tools like ArcView,
ArcInfo.. and others.
more exports in 2008. |
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"True" Pan and Zoom Interface.
We now offer "true" Pan
and Zoom capabilities. Now, after “building” an image with several tracking
selections…you can zoom in, zoom out, or move the map. Regardless, all
of your tracking selections remain!
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Native Google Earth support. In addition to the graphics interface this function exports KML (Google Earth's native
language) that represents a significant number of a storm's observed and
forecast parameters.
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Expanded Google Earth Information.
In addition to the LARGE
amount of hurricane information that the user is able to export from the
HURRTRAK system, you can also
superimpose National Weather Service information on the same
Google Earth “image”.
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Summary Report Google Earth Export with live web
cams
With the summary report
export, you have the ability to view a "live" web cam image of the
location being analyzed! The system is pre-loaded with about 100 web cams
links. Alternatively, you may choose to override these locations and define
your own live or static images!
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Expanded Historical Storm Databases.
The system has
all storm databases from 1851 to 2007. They are accessible from the main
tracking program (i.e. not just the History module).
The wind radii data is estimated for storms from 1851-1980
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Damage Estimate Report.
A new report designed to estimate
comparative levels of impact/damage, based on separate components of wind
speed and storm surge flooding. Specifically, this report takes into
account the levels of wind and flooding on the affected population.
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Damage Comments.
The summary impact report which details
expected wind speeds for locations has a damage comment column which
describes the likely damage using either the Saffir-Simpson scale or a
modified Texas Tech University scale.
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Sea/Wave heights - For offshore locations,
the system estimates the forecast wave heights associated to a hurricane.
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Custom Location Import - Hurrtrak-Advanced
includes the capability to import your organizations specific locations into
the system's database... thus allowing you to create custom impact reports
for these locations. It accepts both comma delimited and shape file
format as input. |
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Track tropical
cyclones around the world |
Customer Comments
Network versions and site licenses are available
for the above products (call for pricing)
System requirements:
Windows XP /
2000 / Vista
Pentium based processor
512 MB RAM, CD-ROM Drive
4 GB hard disk space
