Weather
In 1988, our founder Tom Yunck originally proposed the GNSS-RO technique and oversaw the development and improvement of the world’s leading capability at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over the last two decades a series of government-funded satellites have refined the technology and proven its tremendous capability.
In 2022, GeoOptics implemented its first technology, known as global navigation satellite system radio occultation (GNSS-RO). Using this technique, GeoOptics patented weather technology has been able to measure the signal from a GNSS satellite with 0.1 mm/s accuracy. This refraction determines atmospheric temperature and pressure with extreme precision – in fact, 30x the weather forecast impact of traditional satellite measurements. As a result, GeoOptics became the first private company to provide data to NOAA for use in the National Weather Service forecast.
GeoOptics’ new generation of satellite-borne weather instruments will build on this technology to offer the most advanced and prolific Earth science data available to private companies as well as to governments, providing dependable, compelling and continuously improving information to people around the world.