Facilities
Air Traffic Control Simulation Laboratories (ATC SIM Lab)
COA - Map #6 - The Air Traffic Management laboratories represent all three air traffic domains. The air traffic control tower simulators replicate the Daytona Beach airport layout and provide students with hands-on experience in ground control, local control, and the flight data/clearance delivery position.
Air Traffic Management Research Laboratory (CAAR Lab)
COA - MAP #6 - This lab allows researchers and students using sophisticated software to simulate airspace and airport systems and solve problems relating to runway incursions, reducing in-flight fuel costs, and streamlining ground operations. Also known as CAAR - Center for Applied Air Traffic Management Research.
Beowulf Supercomputer Parallel Cluster
This is a cluster of smaller computers with a disk space of 1 terabyte each. This cluster includes 250 processors and 128 computers.
COA 357 - Map #6 - This facility processes about 100 gigabytes of weather data, including data such as surface weather observation for the whole world, geostationary satellite data for the whole world, weather radar in the U.S., lightning data in the U.S., rapid updates, and global forecast model.
The newest edition to the Weather Center is a studio with a high-definition camera and green screen. It broadcasts TV shows for New Smyrna Beach, Campus TV, and FM broadcasts. This studio includes four portable high-definition cameras to travel on or off campus.
There are 30 computers for student use, stationed at the desks. All computers have operating systems such as Linux and Windows. They use dual CPUs with 4 gigabytes of memory. These classrooms are primarily for weather classes.
COA 356 - Map #6 - Students have opportunities to study real-time and case study weather information by using various data inputs through the Internet and our own NOAAPORT satellite downlink.
