FACILITIES AND RESOURCES
FMA operates the Yucca Ridge Field Station which has served as the site
of several international scientific experiments concerning severe weather.
It also provides a vantage point for time lapse video imaging of northern
Colorado air pollution episodes along the Front Range. FMA has extensive
computer, graphics, and video production and editing facilities to support
forensic presentations, scientific investigation, and technical reporting.
A new 2500 square foot laboratory and office facility, complete with a
360-degree observation deck was completed in 1996.
Image Capture:
- Professional quality JVC KY-19 Lolux S-VHS camera system (Canon 17:1 zoom lens)
- Dual Cosmicar CCTV systems with Pentax TV video zoom and wide angle lens
- Dual Panasonic AG6730A time lapse video acquisition systems (VHS and S-VHS)
- Dual Xybion ISS-255 low-light video imaging systems
- Minolta 7000i 35 mm motorized camera with data back
- 35 mm panoramic camera
- Polaroid SprintScan 35mm slide and negative scanner
- Epson flat bed color scanner
Computational Facilities:
- PowerMac 8100/100, 80 meg RAM, 19 Gbyte disk array
- DAT archival system
- PowerMac 7100, 64 meg RAM, 2 Gbyte, V28.8 modem; graphics tablet
- Pentium PRO, 180 mHz, 4 Gbyte HDD, 128 meg RAM, 6x CDROM, 21" monitor
- MAC II; MAC SE; PowerBook Duo 280 C
- Pentium PC, 32 meg RAM and 1.0 GB disk
- Operating systems: OS/2 warp, DOS, Windows, MacOS 7.5.5
- Epson Stylus Color and HP 550C/680C color inkjet printers
- NEC 800 and HP IV M+ laser printers
Video Production and Editing, Imaging Processing &
Visualization:
- Media 100 Digital Non-Linear Editing System (v 2.62)
- Mackie 12-channel sound mixing board
- Dual Shure wireless microphone systems
- Shure studio microphone, CD and turntable sound sources
- FastFX, CG software
- Adobe Photoshop, V for Windows, assorted text processing and paint systems
- (3) Sony Trinitron Monitors
- (2) JVC BRS-800U editing and Panasonic AG1960 analysis deck
- SAVI3d data visualization from SSESCO, Inc.
- Grapher, Surfer, Mapviewer, Maptitude
Information Resources:
- Meteorological data base (radar, satellite, lightning, surface and upper air weather)
- Technical journal and reprint library (10,000 items)
- Literature search services
- Time lapse cloud and air quality video tape library (1992- present) for the Front Range
- 35 mm slide library of atmospheric phenomena (20,000 entries)
- Licensed music library (for video production)
- Texas Electronics continuous meteorological monitoring system at YRFS.
Webmaster is Liv Lyons This page last
updated on 6/24/00.
©FMA RESEARCH, Inc.
46050 Weld County Road 13
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Phone: (970) 569-7664 Fax: (970) 482-8627
E-mail: walyons@frii.com
Member, National Council of Industrial Meteorologists