WeatherCall is a subscription-based service from KIMT (Iowa/Minnesota TV station) based on the U.S. National Weather Service data. It costs $6 dollars per year. Subscribers provide a physical location (address) and receive notification (e-mail, text, phone call) whenever severe weather including tornado warnings are delivered. Subscribers can optionally choose to receive severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings.
The service is enabled by changes in how NWS know tracks storms. It’s now done via polygon - meaning those outside the area need not be warned. Messages come from the station’s Chief Meteorologist Adam Frederick 24 hours a day. It’s not a location-based service in the sense it does not know where you are, save via that single input address. When you travel you can change your location manually within the system.
The company behind the offering (which apparently is apparently available from many TV/radio stations) is Media Weather Innovations.
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/04 at 06:23 AM |
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The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) commission the report titled, “Independent Study of the Roles of Commercial Remote Sensing in the future National System for Geospatial-Intelligence” early last year. It explores four possible business cases for how the government and private companies might work together to provide needed imagery for those agencies and their government clients. The suggested path is not the status quo and may have implications for the two current U.S. commercial satellite providers DigtialGlobe and GeoEye. Our editors try to tease out what the report means and its implications.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 03/04 at 01:00 AM |
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