[opendtv] Re: The Weather and do these people have NO shame?

Do you actually believe that services such as Accuweather and TWC
could provide viable product lacking the weather data supplied by
the several government agencies and derived from their multibillion
dollar network of sensors, including the many satellites with varying
capabilities? If someone must pay for this information, lets begin with
Accuweather and TWC.

Also, in this discussion, we've failed to identify the major client and
a major justification for the US government's investment in it's vast
world wide weather gathering capability. This information is mission
*critical* to the military.
A similar discussion could be about private use of the GPS
satellite system, which is also critical military hardware and is widely
commercialized. Should a government licensing fee be charged for
it's commercial use?  Perhaps that might be more profitable than
auctioning our devaluing broadcast spectrum.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: The Weather and do these people have NO shame?


> Actually they use their own network of ground-based sensors and have
> better coverage than the NWS in this area (as far as I know). They *do*
> have products that go well beyond what the NWS offers to the public
> (like their Galileo system). They also cover countries outside the USA,
> which the NWS doesn't do. Plus they hook into traffic sensor networks
> and other systems which the NWS has marginal interest in (although you
> will see some of these products over say their EMWIN feed).
>
> But yes, their satellite imagery is image enhancement of data coming
> from GOES8, 10 and so forth - which itself is free and unencrypted.
>
> Don't forget the NASA and USGS satellite imaging... !
>
> Cheers
> Kon
>
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 23:08 -0400, Cliff Benham wrote:
>> Lets see Accuweather build, launch, maintain AND PAY FOR a fleet of
>> satellites to watch earth weather like
>> NOAA and the U.S. Govt. has.
>> It's called putting your money where your mouth is.
>> Talk is cheap.
>
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