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Session
Technical Session VII: Opportunities, Trends and Initiatives
Abstract
Weather impacts everything and every person on a global scale: from international supply chains to deciding what to wear each morning. The unfortunate reality is that while weather modeling and simulations have continued to advance, the amount of raw data available for analysis has consistently dwindled. A majority of the data collected for weather analysis comes from satellites, and many of those satellites are past their intended decommission date - the likelihood of a catastrophic failure and diminishing reliability increasing with each passing day. A government report released this year provides details about the imminent gap in weather data and suggests ways to close the gap. GPS-RO, private companies and public-private partnerships were highlighted as some of the most promising solutions. Each of these solutions are benefitting from rapid advancements in nanosatellite technology, which may close the weather data gap in record time. This year, Spire Global, Inc. unveiled imminent launch plans for the world’s largest network of commercial weather satellites using GPS-RO for raw data collection. Spire’s nanosatellite network will collect unique data from any point on Earth multiple times per hour providing a hundred times the amount of GPS-RO data available today from similar publicly funded satellite programs.
Smaller Satellites, Smarter Forecasts: GPS-RO Goes Mainstream
Weather impacts everything and every person on a global scale: from international supply chains to deciding what to wear each morning. The unfortunate reality is that while weather modeling and simulations have continued to advance, the amount of raw data available for analysis has consistently dwindled. A majority of the data collected for weather analysis comes from satellites, and many of those satellites are past their intended decommission date - the likelihood of a catastrophic failure and diminishing reliability increasing with each passing day. A government report released this year provides details about the imminent gap in weather data and suggests ways to close the gap. GPS-RO, private companies and public-private partnerships were highlighted as some of the most promising solutions. Each of these solutions are benefitting from rapid advancements in nanosatellite technology, which may close the weather data gap in record time. This year, Spire Global, Inc. unveiled imminent launch plans for the world’s largest network of commercial weather satellites using GPS-RO for raw data collection. Spire’s nanosatellite network will collect unique data from any point on Earth multiple times per hour providing a hundred times the amount of GPS-RO data available today from similar publicly funded satellite programs.
