{"id":69939,"date":"2016-09-16T22:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/noaa-selects-geooptics-and-spire-for-commercial-weather-satellite-data-purchase\/"},"modified":"2016-09-16T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:03:25","slug":"noaa-selects-geooptics-and-spire-for-commercial-weather-satellite-data-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/noaa-selects-geooptics-and-spire-for-commercial-weather-satellite-data-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Selects GeoOptics and Spire for Commercial Weather Satellite Data Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-16-2016] The U.S. <strong>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong> (NOAA) has awarded <strong>GeoOptics<\/strong>&nbsp;and <strong>Spire<\/strong>&nbsp;data purchase contracts under its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program. This is the first time NOAA has contracted to purchase satellite weather data from commercial providers.&nbsp;Under this pilot program, the companies&nbsp;will provide Global Positioning System Radio Occultation (GPS-RO), a critical weather data type, to NOAA for evaluation. The data evaluation process is a necessary first step before any future procurement of commercially-provided weather data for operational use in NOAA\u2019s weather forecast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NOAA\u2019s Commercial Weather Data Pilot was established earlier this year to \u201cassess the potential viability of commercial weather data in [NOAA\u2019s] weather modeling and forecasting.\u201d The program is funded \u201cto purchase, evaluate, and calibrate available data, which meets the standards and specifications set by NOAA in its Commercial Data Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-16-2016] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded GeoOptics&nbsp;and Spire&nbsp;data purchase contracts under its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program. This is the first time NOAA has contracted to purchase satellite weather data from commercial providers.&nbsp;Under this pilot program, the companies&nbsp;will provide Global Positioning System Radio Occultation (GPS-RO), a critical weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}