Lockheed Martin won a $3 million contract to produce a prototype that fuses all the incoming data on sea surface
Instead of trying to absorb gigabytes or terabytes of data streaming from satellites, weather stations and buoys and looking at different websites, the goal is to synthesize the information, use artificial intelligence to analyze it and create a digital replica of the Earth that can be accessed in one place.
NOAA asked for proposals to develop a centralized monitoring system. Lockheed won a $3 million contract to produce a prototype that fuses all the incoming data on sea surface, just one of the five major systems that NOAA monitors. Lockheed is working with NVIDIA, based in Santa Clara, Calif., to create a multidimensional image that will be updated continually with new data.Now, NOAA staffers have to look at a series of websites fed by different sources to get a holistic view of conditions, she added.“We have a huge increase in the volume and diversity of the environmental data and it’s expected to be even more in the future,” said Sid Boukabara, a principal scientist at NOAA in the Washington, D.C., area.
“By creating this digital replica of the Earth environment, we’re hoping to be able to streamline the handling of the environmental observations and to include nontraditional observations, from citizens,” Boukabara added.
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