EarthCast’s Advanced Technologies

The innovation powering the next generation of environmental intelligence

Global Environmental Weather Intelligence System (GEWIS)

The backbone of all our commercial services is the EarthCast™-developed Global Environmental Weather Intelligence System. GEWIS is an operationalized, end to end environmental intelligence system that delivers high resolution, near real-time global monitoring, nowcasts, and predictions.  

EIOS

Environmental Intelligence Operational Systems

Our production service, Environmental Intelligence Operational System (EIOS), collects input data from a variety of sources including state-of-the-art global satellite and weather radar data, lightning detection systems, surface and aircraft observations, aircraft eddy dissipation rate turbulence measurements and more. Empowered with cutting edge high-performance computing (HPC) technologies, EIOS is the premier commercial solution for high resolution, near real-time global monitoring, nowcasts, and predictions.

EarthCast offers full scientific, technical & engineering services for:
 Data Sources including setup & integration (including new, proprietary & customer sources)
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Assimilation Sources including qualification, quality control & setup
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Data Pre-Processing including Multi Model Optimization
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Assimilation Engines including configuration and operations
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Environmental Modeling including High Performance Computing (HPC), AI/ML, model enhancements and verification & validation
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Post Processing including conversions, diagnostics, plots, grids, cross sections, interpolation, etc. 
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Visualization including geo-conversion and fully customizable visual outputs
• Production Operations – High TRL, verified, validated, redundant, secure, 24/7/365 monitored & scalable

DaaS

Weather & Environmental
Data as a Service

EarthCast specializes in the full breadth of Environmental Intelligence Services and provides the end to end solutions for Weather and Environmental Data as a Service (WxDaaS/EnvDaaS) which includes high-performance computing, advanced system architecture, micro-services, environmental modeling, Big Data, AI and machine learning, weather data archiving, data handling and visualization of new and evolving environmental solutions across all industries impacted by weather and environmental conditions.

RESTful APIs for Seamless Data Access
• Flexible endpoints for querying real-time weather and spatial data.
• Intuitive query structure for easy integration with applications.
• Scalable and performant for high-load environments.
• Easily accessible via Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS

Leveraging OGC-Compliant Standards
• WCS (Web Coverage Service): Delivering raster data on-demand for advanced analytics.
• WFS (Web Feature Service): On-the-fly retrieval of vector-based geospatial data.
• WMS (Web Map Service): Rapid generation of visual layers for mapping applications.

Powered by GeoServer & POSTGIS
• GeoServer: Centralized, scalable platform for serving raster and vector data.
• POSTGIS Integration: Geo-spatially enabled databases for real-time query performance and complex spatial operations.

Time-Indexed and Altitude-Indexed Data
• Query by time, altitude, and bounded location
• Past data
• Future forecasting

URUS

Ultra-Rapid Update Hazard Prediction Systems

EarthCast greatly enhances environmental monitoring and predictions, especially at ultra-rapid update, sub-kilometer-scale resolutions and for short-term weather forecasting and makes its most significant strides in wildfire and convective storm prediction. Ultra-Rapid Update (URU) modeling system also revealed, for the first time, positive results for the near-continuous prediction of wildfire location, smoke plums, and convective storms

• Live Conditions Assimilation as fast as every 15 Seconds
• Realtime Cloud Scaling HPC up to 20K cores/run
• Sub Km Resolutions as detailed as 250m
• URU Model Run Rates as fast as every 1-5 min
• Prediction Timesteps as frequent as 1 min
Total Earth Coverage (including Oceans/Polar regions) at 1km+ global resolution
• Space Weather whole atmosphere modeling up to 2,700km+

AHAS

Automated Hazard Alerting System

At EarthCast, we revolutionize alerting, monitoring and predicting while improving the current state of environmental products quality and resolution. We specialize in modernizing capabilities in the hazard alerting space for industry specific opportunities tailoring alerts and customizing threshold parameters for hazard alert services. By leveraging the advances in our core technologies, we improve the science of alerting with near real-time data, higher resolutions, faster speeds and rapid update modeling.  

Time-Indexed Data & Animations
• Access historical, current, and forecast data with temporal accuracy.
• Generate real-time animations for weather patterns, atmospheric changes, and more.

Altitude-Indexed Data for Multi-Dimensional Insights
• Data queries extend beyond the surface—explore atmospheric layers, 3D spatial analyses, and elevation models.

Raw & Stylized Data
• Raw Data Access: For power users needing unfiltered information for detailed analytics.
• Stylized Data: Easily interpreted, visually appealing formats tailored for reports, dashboards, and visualizations.

Complete Control Over Data Output
• Format options: JSON, GeoTIFF, NetCDF, and more.
• Customized data for specific needs (e.g., grid formats, feature attributes, etc.).

Configurable Micro-Services
• Customize alert criteria & conditions
• Customize logic for unique scenarios and decision trees
• Single parameter flags and unique micro-products for scale & configurability

STEPS

Space and Terrestrial Environmental Prediction Systems

There recently has been expanded interest in the advanced development of aerospace vehicles for access to space, reconnaissance, global strike & reach, and commercial transportation. EarthCast specializes in Terrestrial and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) – to rapidly predict, detect, track, identify, warn, characterize, and attribute, global natural enviromental threats and conditions.

• Uses global satellites to monitor & predict full Earth mission situational awareness, including high altitude hazards
Ideal for T&E efforts to improve flight planning designs and testing for new aerospace vehicles
Unparalleled detail & accuracy because the atmosphere is sensed and predicted globally
Requires no modification or instrumentation of aircraft as a fully Space-based system  
Includes entire depth of the atmosphere monitoring and predictions for the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere and Ionosphere

ESAS

Environmental Situational Awareness Systems

EarthCast specializes in data integrations for all types of environmental applications and common operating picture (COP) mission systems, to include projects in Department of Defense. We have experience bringing new capabilities to market and integrating our data solutions with many types environmental situational awareness systems, including for hypersonics, electronic flight bags (EFB’s), digital moving maps, intel sensor integrations, command and control, simulation and training, post action analysis, classified integrations, and more. 

EarthCast offers full data configuration and integration services for:
• Visualization Services images & animations – GML*, GeoTIFF, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, PDF, KML/KMZ, PNG, GIF, JPEG, SVG, CSV, XLS and more!
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Web Services including data repositories, datastore access formats, GIS servers, WMS, WFS, etc.
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Data as a Service including vector files, raster data, RESTful  API, XML, JSON, SLD, GSS, etc
• Micro-Services
  including custom services, scenarios, alert criteria, conditions, and decision trees
•  Cloud Services including HPC modeling & containers, VM services, etc.
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Application Development  including GIS digital moving map integrations, custom GUI & web clients

Business Areas

Empower your ability to make mission critical tactical decisions with environmental intelligence

EarthCast provides new and evolving products and services for multiple industries impacted by environmental conditions.

Aviation

Department of Defense

Agriculture

Hydrology

Space

Emergency Management

Maritime

Transportation

Energy

Environmental Change