The Need for National Standard of X-Band Radar Technology to Detect Rainfall and Disaster Mitigation.

Indonesia is an area with high convective activity so that it often results in high intensity rain. This has the potential to cause disaster, especially in areas prone to flooding and landslides. Currently technology to monitor rainfall uses weather and satellite radars, which are relatively expensive. Indonesia is developing a relatively cheaper commercial radarbased rain radar technology. One of them is the use of ship radar. This radar is the development of the ship's x-band radar technology which was developed into LAPAN's radar detection rain. In its development, quality standards are needed to ensure radar performance can operate properly. In this study a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was conducted by inviting key informants to developers of rain radar technology and searching literature studies related to x-band rain radar technology in Ecuador, Italy, France and Denmark. From the research results obtained critical parameters in the development of x-band rain radars are output power, pulse repetition frequency, pulse length and signal beam width. In developing the performance of xband rain radars there needs to be an anti-clutter system and radar signal processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]