Vaisala Weather Radar Team Wins Finnish Engineering Award
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
The 2011 Finnish Engineering Award has been awarded to Vaisala's weather radar
team. Pentti Karhunen, Henry Andersson, Petri Haapanen, Reino Keränen, Timo
Lyly, Juha Salmivaara and Rainer Sanmark receive the award for developing and
productizing Vaisala's dual polarization Doppler weather radar. The 25,000 euro
Award was announced today in Helsinki.
The weather radar team developed and productized Vaisala's dual polarization
Doppler weather radar, which was the first of its kind in the world specifically
designed to provide dual polarization capability. The development took place in
2002-08, and the new radar was launched in 2007. Since then, orders have been
received from 13 different countries.
The winning team worked on the weather radar development in close collaboration.
Pentti Karhunen was responsible for concept design and leading the project,
Henry Andersson for RF and automation design, Rainer Sanmark for antenna and
pedestal mechanics, Reino Keränen for algorithm and software development, Petri
Haapanen for transmitter integration, Timo Lyly for RF receiver design and
processor integration, and Juha Salmivaara for antenna integration and system
testing.
In addition, extensive research collaboration was carried out with Colorado
State University, University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological
Institute, for example, in developing dual polarization applications.
The Finnish Engineering Award is presented by the Finnish Association of
Graduate Engineers TEK and the Tekniska Föreningen i Finland TFiF. The Award is
granted annually to a person or team that has made significant contribution to
Finnish technological expertise. The award-winning engineering work may be
characterized by an element of creativity, originality, or by practical
implementation of the idea or theory in question. The work's commercial and
economic aspects are also considered. The very first Finnish Engineering Award
was granted in 1981.
More information:
Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK:
Pekka Pellinen, Director, Technology & Society
Tel. +358 40 521 9424, pekka.pellinen[at]tek.fi
Vaisala:
Sanna Nyström, Communications
Tel. +358 40 584 1126, sanna.nystrom[at]vaisala.com
Vaisala is a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement. Building
on 75 years of experience, Vaisala contributes to a better quality of life by
providing a comprehensive range of innovative observation and measurement
products and services for meteorology, weather critical operations and
controlled environments. Headquartered in Finland, Vaisala employs approximately
1350 professionals worldwide and is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.
www.vaisala.com
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Source: Vaisala Oyj via Thomson Reuters ONE
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