This page provides easy access to WDTB's RDA Build training material.

RDA Updates

1. RDA/RPG Build 11.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2009).
1. Clutter Mitigation Decision (CMD) algorithm
2. Addressing false RDA alarms when switching to/from VCP 31
2. RDA/RPG Build 10.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2008).
1. Bypass Map generation default values changed
2. Changes to clutter censoring settings
3. Maximum number of clutter regions increased
4. RDA HCI changes
3. RDA/RPG Build 9.0 Web page (deployed Summer 2007).
   Impacts at RDA:
1. Change to Gaussian Model Adaptive Processing (GMAP) Seed Width Value
2. Increase in Clutter Filtering Elevation Segments
3. Sachidananda-Zrnic (SZ)-2 Algorithm
4. Change to First Displayable Range Bin
4. ORDA/RPG Build 8.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2006).
   Impacts at ORDA:
1. RDA HCI at the MSCF
2. Clutter Bypass Map range placement error fixed
3. ORDA related changes to the CFC and NEXRAD Unit Status Products
5. ORDA Build 7.0 Web page (deployed Fall 2005).
1. Improvements in calibration
2. Improved sensitivity in long pulse (VCP 31)
3. New clutter suppression technique: Gaussian Model Adaptive Processing (GMAP)
4. Differences in Batch elevation Reflectivity data
5. Improvements to the quality of Spectrum Width estimates
6. Differences in elevation angle settling
7. End of first trip Velocity less noisy with ORDA
8. Differences in types of RDA Alarms
9. Differences in RDA Performance Data Menus
10. False Alarm at AWIPS