Commercial Ventures Planning To Gather and Sell Weather Data

摘要

GeoMetWateh Corp. and PlanetIQ are seeking private financing for unrelated efforts to gather the type of detailed atmospheric data used to forecast severe weather and study climate change.If the ventures are successful, they could pave the way for greater government reliance on commercial firms to provide data from space-based instruments.GeoMetWatch plans to launch six hyperspectral sounders into geostationary orbit as hosted pay-loads on commercial communications satellites.