When severe weather strikes, there isn't a moment to lose… for your audience or your weather team. TruVu Titan is the interactive storytelling tool that produces high-resolution pictures of dangerous and disruptive breaking weather without rendering. So you get the news out fast and keep your talent in the picture.

Photorealistic mapping and beautiful 3D Earth images make even fast-changing stories easy to understand with TruVu Titan. Audiences find Titan's vivid images more credible and compelling than the awkward, chunky graphics of other systems. We know, because we've tested Titan's graphics with real viewers. It’s a difference you can see on HD or standard definition broadcasts.

This year, TruVu Titan includes features that take tropical storm coverage to a new level. Hurricane Hunter provides the clearest, most accurate depiction of the path -- and probable future course -- of these deadly storms. Hurricane Tracker animates live, in real time, combining a constantly updated stream of incoming data from the National Hurricane Center so your talent stays on the air and on the story as it unfolds.

Hurricane Hunter follows the path of the hurricane-monitoring aircraft of the National Weather Service as they fly into the eye of these storms to gather data. The data from the aircraft updates automatically even while you are on-air, giving your coverage the immediacy and excitement of the front lines. And the new feature Spaghetti Tracks conveys the uncertainty of the rapidly changing situation as the jumble of multiple hurricane forecast models untangles as impact nears.

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TruVu Titan includes these features for better storytelling and makes Titan easier to use than ever before.

Titan Impact is designed to provide on-camera meteorologists the tools they need to keep their viewers informed and safe from all of the dangerous phenomenon associated with severe weather outbreaks. Titan Impact provides critical intensity information on the top five hazards related to thunderstorms while other index products on the market only identify a single storm threat, such as tornadoes. This leaves meteorologists underserved in their mission and viewers dangerously under informed.

WSI Fire Weather Index is brand new and vital to communities that face this annual threat to life and property. This promotable, must-watch index is derived from our exclusive 4km RPM forecast model and is available as part of WSI's Vortex HD service. The WSI Fire Weather Index provides an easy to understand threat level for the potential of brush and wild fires based on a sophisticated algorithm incorporating wind, humidity and other atmospheric conditions along with surface conditions such as soil moisture.

With the acquisition of EEC, WSI is the premier radar company in the world.

Now TruVu Titan integrates with a greater variety of radar feeds than any other weather company. Here are some of the radar feeds now supported and radar features newly available in 2008:

EEC HiDef Radar - TruVu Titan displays live, sweeping high-definition EEC data, supporting up to 3840 bins -- a resolution as much as sixteen times greater than what you're experiencing now

EEC "Defender" Dual Polarity Radar – Titan also displays EEC's exclusive, dual polarity radar that allows you to detect, analyze, depict and warn viewers of more kinds of dangerous weather than any radar system in history. Now rain, sleet, snow and hail can be televised more clearly and accurately than ever before. Traditional radar cannot distinguish the difference between these types of precipitation.

Super Resolution NEXRAD Level II Data - In the spring and summer of 2008, the National Weather Service will upgrade its radar data to Super Resolution. Super Resolution data will improve the resolution of reflectivity data by 400% by reducing bin size from 1km to 250m. Best of all, the data is available to all Vortex Severe customers and Titan is ready to display that data now.

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