Microburst Automatic Detection (MAD™)

The portable, easily expandable Microburst Automatic Detection (MAD) system can dramatically improve aviation safety. Mimicking the reasoning of a human observer on the lookout for weather hazards, MAD assesses such hazards quickly while avoiding human weaknesses such as fatigue. Timely alerts to pilots and air-traffic controllers allow traffic rerouting to begin sooner to save lives and property. MAD's high success rate in confirmed detections and extremely low false-positive rate, and its utility with various radar and radar data formats, make the system versatile and applicable as a radar upgrade package.