A meeting with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's top satellite official has small-satellite operator Spire Inc. hopeful that the agency will publish standards for commercial weather data by the end of the year. Steve Volz, NOAA assistant administrator for satellite and information services, hosted representatives of Spire and other aspiring commercial weather data providers at a luncheon April 27 during the 2015 NOAA Satellite Conference in Greenbelt, Maryland. The invitation-only meeting's goal was to update companies on NOAA's progress crafting standards for commercial satellite-data buys - something the agency says it must do before it can fold this data into its weather forecasting models.
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