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Precipitation Imaging Package(PIP)

The Precipitation Imaging Processor (PIP) is an instrument designed by Dr. Larry Bliven at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Its high-frame-rate records of grey-scale images is able to determine both particle size and fall-speed measurements in both rain and snow. The current model has a frame rate of nearly 400 Hz over a 640 x 480 pixel window. Precipitation Imaging Processor (PIP)