This company provides satellite-based weather and climate data for forecasting, monitoring, and space weather prediction. Their services help clients across various sectors improve safety and minimize weather-related risks.
Funding
$18.7M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
AVNSFounders
Product
Problem
Accurate weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and space weather prediction are limited by the availability of high-quality, global atmospheric data, especially in areas obscured by clouds or with sparse traditional observation networks. This lack of comprehensive data leads to less accurate predictions of weather patterns, natural disasters, and space weather events, impacting various sectors and public safety.
Solution
PlanetiQ provides high-resolution atmospheric data through a commercial constellation of GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO) weather satellites. Their advanced "Pyxis" sensor technology penetrates clouds and storms to deliver precise measurements of temperature, pressure, humidity, and electron density from the Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere. By receiving signals from all four global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), PlanetiQ's satellites collect more than double the data of other GPS-RO sensors, enabling improved weather forecasts, climate models, and space weather predictions. The resulting data streams are used worldwide in both operational and research contexts, enhancing the accuracy of forecasts and early warnings for high-impact environmental events.
Target Audience
PlanetiQ serves a diverse range of commercial and government customers, including weather forecasting agencies, aviation companies, shipping operators, offshore oil and gas companies, defense and intelligence organizations, energy providers, agricultural businesses, and insurance firms.
Features
- Global, real-time vertical atmosphere profiles, including refractivity, pressure, temperature, and density
- Ionosphere measurements such as Total Electron Content and scintillations for space weather prediction
- Fourth-generation "Pyxis" radio occultation (RO) sensor capable of receiving signals from GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou constellations
- High-density coverage from pole to pole for accurate regional and global forecasts
- Ability to penetrate through clouds and storms to the Earth's surface
- Improved accuracy in hurricane forecasts and predictions of heavy-precipitation events