the center woor, we want to knot the lowest pressure is, of category four standards and we have a down-ward looking instrument that maps out surface winds. you want to know how strong the winds are blowing when you're a coastal resident so we map out 105 mile radio legs all around the storm, all directions so we provide that wind field to the hurricaine center, they turn it over to the emergency managers, the local officials and if everyone will just please heed the advice of those people, and when they can get to the hurricaine center site, get to it, because it's the best information you can get, noaa's national hurricaine. >> the question many people is ask is who is doing this? is this done with instruments? through computerized? or are people doing it themselves? collecting this information? >> oh, no, we had an airplane with 17 people on board. we had a combination of noaa,