Shimon Elkabetz, CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow.io, explains why Tomorrow.io cannot simply purchase atmospheric data from existing commercial satellite constellations.
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“None of them has a radar that is designed to describe the atmosphere. We have imagery satellites. We have infrared satellites that are blocked by the top of the clouds, for example, so they don't see through. And we also have SAR satellites that are actually equipped with radars But these radars are designed to describe the ground very accurately and ignore the atmosphere.”
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