Environmental Intelligence Solutions

EarthCast develops environmental intelligence solutions for some of the world’s biggest airlines and defense companies provided as both in-cockpit and ground-based solutions supporting tens of thousands of pilots and operations personnel with mission-critical, 24/7/365 operations. We develop customized solutions to deal with complex environmental hazards – from real-time alerting for turbulence to forecasting convective hazards around the globe.

Designed specifically for aviation, EarthCast provides monitoring and prediction products throughout the lower atmosphere with over 100 vertical flight levels (up to 100,000 ft+), including visibility, degraded visual environment (DVE), cloud cover, cloud bases, cloud tops and ceilings, wind speed and direction, and more.

EarthCast also provides real-time alerting for flight hazards such as convection, icing, hail, volcanic ash, turbulence (with 3D views), lightning, contrails, and more.

EarthCast provides advanced environmental modeling solutions predicting numerous hazards and reducing the impact that they have on our customers’ operations. Our hydrology modeling solutions provide predictions of flash flooding, streamflow, infiltration, saturation, washout, and groundwater flow. 

Land surface models provide detailed information about soil conditions, including soil moisture and temperature, while ocean surface models provide information on key conditions including surface temperature and wave heights at sub-kilometer resolutions.

EarthCast’s monitoring and prediction products include real-time alerting for hazards such as threats to commercial aviation, high-risk transportation corridors, railroad washout prediction, as well as flood and flash flood alerting.

EarthCast is monitoring and predicting the upper atmosphere and space environment which is driven by the incoming solar wind (velocity, density, and magnetic field), solar ultraviolet (UV) and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, as well as gravity waves & tides from the lower part of the terrestrial atmosphere.

EarthCast’s operational Whole Atmosphere Models (WAM) provide revolutionary real-time, integrated space weather products and solutions for the Earth’s neutral atmosphere to an altitude 3,000 km+. This is a dramatic expansion of the ability to monitor and predict the full depth and volume of the Earth’s terrestrial atmosphere.

In addition to extending prediction capability through the depths of the atmosphere, EarthCast is developing innovative technologies for monitoring and predicting the space weather plasma component of the atmosphere. Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (IPE) provides global four-dimensional (4D) models of plasma densities and velocities (9 ion species), as well as ion and electron temperatures in the ionosphere and plasmasphere. This new knowledge is critical to launch and space operations of high-altitude vehicles, satellites, and high frequency (HF) communications. 

EarthCast supports both national defense and commercial customers with advanced solutions for space-age challenges.

EarthCast provides research, development, and system customization services to the Department of Defense and integrators supporting initiatives in commercial weather solutions, hypersonic vehicle and range testing, rapid-update space-based observations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and in-cockpit environmental situational awareness. EarthCast is committed to serving the warfighter by applying advanced, commercially developed technologies to our nation’s defense through DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards.

EarthCast delivers monitoring and prediction products for terrestrial weather that reach into the Thermosphere with predictions for over 100 vertical flight levels up to 100,000 feet, including convection, icing, turbulence, visibility, cloud cover, cloud tops and ceilings, wind speed and direction, and more. For space weather, we monitor and predict electron density, neutral air density, chemistry, and more. EarthCast provides real-time alerting for numerous hazards, including DVE, hail, volcanic ash, turbulence, lightning, and flooding.

EarthCast provides aviation solutions for in-flight alerting of customized hazards with visualization tools that provide both top-down and vertical cross-section views. Our detailed environmental intelligence solutions are ready to support the next generation of aviation pioneers, including Urban Air Mobility (UAM), electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) and drone operations. 

EarthCast provides near real-time current observations of lighting, hail, aircraft reported turbulence, weather radar, rapidly-updating global turbulence nowcast products and longer-term forecasts paired with in-flight tracking.

EarthCast intuitively displays innovative global turbulence and flight hazard products, providing global situational awareness directly into the cockpit through electronic flight bags (EFBs).

We provide solutions for situational awareness in even the most remote locations. EarthCast’s global coverage provides detailed information when and where it’s needed the most. 

Monitoring & prediction products include real-time alerting for railway/roadway hazards including flash flooding, washout prediction, ground saturation, and flooding.

We provide solutions for maritime operations, anywhere in the world.

Monitoring and prediction products for sea states, water temperature, wave heights and more.

We provide terrestrial weather solutions at the global to local scale, including extremely detailed information about the Earth’s atmosphere. Vast historical archives and advanced processing provide the ability to see potential long-term impacts over time.

Monitoring and prediction products for near and long-term impacts.

EarthCast provides real-time environmental monitoring and prediction solutions for true situational awareness, including temperature, wind, and cloud conditions, as well as wildfire monitoring, and downwind transport of chemical or nuclear materials.

EarthCast’s space weather services address the most complex challenges facing those who operate at our atmosphere’s highest levels – and beyond. EarthCast provides real-time monitoring and predictions of key space weather components such as neutral orbital air density, Total Electron Content (TEC), plasma densities and velocities with 9 ion species breakdown, and more, to altitudes over 2700 km.

EarthCast has developed specialized electron density monitoring and predictions for HF communications empowering solutions for Lowest Usable Frequency (LUF) due to D-region absorption, Maximum Usable Frequency (MUF), and more.

EarthCast can also address small-scale ionospheric irregularities causing scintillations/fluctuation or complete loss of signal, and help with navigation signal delays and line of sight electron content for position error improvements. EarthCast’s solutions provide details about the Earth’s neutral and charged atmosphere for improved planning and operations.

We provide solutions for Emergency Management Services (EMS) that include severe weather alerting, chemical dispersion, wildfire monitoring and prediction, and volcanic ash downwind transport, all powered by our Ultra-Rapid Update (URU) hazard prediction hyperlocal services.

Monitoring and prediction products for wildfires, convective storms, wind shear, chemical dispersion, and volcanic ash downwind transport, including automated hazard alerts.

Solutions for real-time global monitoring, water resource management and engineering, financial commodity planning, and historical analysis for trends and extremes.

Advanced Earth system monitoring and prediction products at the global and hyperlocal scales.

Monitoring and prediction solutions include Ultra-Rapid Update (URU) hazard prediction services and automated hazard alerts.