Make the Weather Work For You: Enabling Advanced Analytics with W...

Maxar's WeatherDesk continues to expand its portfolio of industry-leading weather solutions, now offering Weather Data Layers: localized weather forecasts and observations for the entire globe. This enhancement enables commodity-trading firms to more accurately assess the impact of weather on potential natural resource utilization or crop health, or alert ride-hailing companies and transportation and logistics organizations to the risk of significant weather exposure..

For more than four decades, Maxar has been a trusted provider of high-quality weather forecasts over key global areas. Until recently, many of these forecasts were for specific places or networks of point-based locations where weather sensors exist-often at airports. Because weather happens everywhere, Weather Data Layers enables advanced analytics that can more accurately assess the impacts of changing weather conditions and climate, previously difficult or impossible to accurately assess by relying solely on point-based forecasts.

Weather Data Layers delivers high-quality geospatial data at spatial resolutions ranging from approximately 14 sq km to as fine as about 1 sq km that updates every hour-far more frequent than typical weather models-and extends 14 days into the future. WeatherDesk users are empowered to discover new insights with this solution, available for download within the WeatherDesk platform or delivered via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Maxar takes a scientific approach to building Weather Data Layers by leveraging proprietary inputs of data and expert modeling techniques in a cloud-based computing environment. This combination of data and processing enables highly accurate, rapidly refreshed forecasts that are often required by our customers for assessing and addressing high-impact problems.