There are probably way more NEXRAD sites than there are SSN radar sites. Also this is using infrastructure that already exists.

This is a good point, and I definitely did a poor job addressing the fit for the flashiness of the title. The understanding that I have is that the SSN does a pretty poor job cataloguing re-entry phenomena and current models for predicting re-entry are pretty unskilled. The idea for something like this is to simply use existing infrastructure to vastly expand the body of knowledge on re-entry events which will allow for a more complete and robust understanding of what's going on above.

That sounds like a really interesting article ;) Seriously, what you've done is interesting enough, you don't need to spice it up with a misleading title.