Baron Services is a weather technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the central part of the far northern region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 Census....

, United States. The company develops weather systems that aid in the detection and dissemination of weather information to customers in the broadcast, government, aviation, marine and automotive industries. These technologies include weather tracking software, Doppler weather radar, systems integration, personal alerting services http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/101540, among others. The company holds numerous U.S. patents for weather technology http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050101/eoty-baron.html.

The OmniWxTrac system developed in 1992 was the first street-level storm tracking system for broadcast television. The corporation has developed storm-tracking technologies like shear markers and SCITS, as well as the Baron Tornado Index

Baron Tornado Index

The Baron Tornado Index , also called Vipir Tornado Index is a meteorological computer model. Its main usage is to determine the probabilities of a tornado inside a Tornadic Vortex Signature on the rear flank of a storm, to better alert potential high-risk areas for tornadoes and to easily track...

 (BTI) http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2010/06/02/daily.2/, which ranks a storm’s tornadic potential on a scale between 0-10.

OmniWxTrac was followed by many additional weather tools including the FasTrac storm tracking system, the 3D VIPIR

VIPIR

Volumetric Imaging and Processing of Integrated Radar, known by the acronym VIPIR, is a type of post-processing program applied to traditional radar systems and is distributed by Baron Weather Solutions...

 storm tracking system and the Omni system.

In 2007, Baron Services and L-3 Communications

L-3 Communications

L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. is a company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and products, avionics, ocean products, training devices and services, instrumentation, space, and navigation products. Its customers include...

 were selected to upgrade 171 U.S. National Weather Service

National Weather Service

The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...

, Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration NEXRAD

NEXRAD

NEXRAD or Nexrad is a network of 159 high-resolution Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration within the United States Department of Commerce...

radars to dual-polarization capability.http://www.ainonline.com/ain-and-ainalerts/aviation-international-news/single-publication-story/browse/0/article/building-a-better-nexrad-radar-19995/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Bstory_pointer%5D=3&tx_ttnews%5Bmode%5D=1 http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=2b4c32e3-ec36-4304-b458-49c8ef52e751

External links

www.baronservices.com

www.baronservices.com/broadcast/display/fastrac

www.baronservices.com/broadcast/display/vipir

www.baronservices.com/broadcast/display/omni