{"id":78050,"date":"2014-03-26T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T09:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/geometwatch-exelis-to-develop-geostationary-hyperspectral-sounder\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T09:20:33","slug":"geometwatch-exelis-to-develop-geostationary-hyperspectral-sounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/geometwatch-exelis-to-develop-geostationary-hyperspectral-sounder\/","title":{"rendered":"GeoMetWatch, Exelis to Develop Geostationary Hyperspectral Sounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 03-26-2014] <b>GeoMetWatch (GMW) <\/b>and <b>Exelis<\/b> have agreed to design a geostationary hyperspectral sounder. Under the agreement, Exelis will manufacture sensors based on the design of the Exelis advanced baseline imager that will be hosted by GMW partner organizations through a GMW license granted by the <b>United States Department of Commerce<\/b> to deploy a constellation of six geostationary hyperspectral sounders. This technology can provide atmospheric data needed to produce next-generation weather forecast models. While existing hyperspectral sounders can provide global information, they do not offer coverage over one specific geographical area, such as the continental United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeostationary orbit capability is important because it is the only point from which we can continuously observe evolving weather with high-temporal resolution,\u201d said Edward Keible, Jr., GMW CEO. \u201cIt also provides superior high-spatial resolution and high-vertical resolution observations to substantially improve our current forecast capability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 03-26-2014] GeoMetWatch (GMW) and Exelis have agreed to design a geostationary hyperspectral sounder. Under the agreement, Exelis will manufacture sensors based on the design of the Exelis advanced baseline imager that will be hosted by GMW partner organizations through a GMW license granted by the United States Department of Commerce to deploy a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78051,"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-78050","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\/78050"}],"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=78050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}