With a weather satellite system, data is sent to you and is locally available for instant access; the software can immediately display the data. The internet, on the other hand, requires connecting, finding, and downloading the images, which may take a significant amount of time or effort.

Weather satellite systems fulfill a mission critical role, providing data, without interruptions, during the severest of storms. Weather satellite systems, unlike the internet, do not depend on the integrity of complex communication infrastructures. During severe storm conditions when weather data is most valuable, a weather satellite system is reliable.     Recently this is particularly important as many countries count on submarine fiber cables for internet that can easily be cut in or before a conflict.

Less latency,     Data or images through the internet will typically be a few minutes behind the directly received imagery due to processing and transfer delays.      This can make a big difference in the tropics and during the summer when thunderstorms can develop very quickly.

A weather satellite system provides you with all of the satellite data available, fully navigated and calibrated, so you can use it and work with it. It is not simply a static, unreferenced picture like that available on the internet. With satellite data and our RVT you can view all the spectral channels without compromising spatial or temporal resolution.

Our Rapid Visualization Tool (RVT) software is a specialized tool that allow you to rapidly work with and analyze the data in ways that you can't on the internet. The Rapid Visualization Tool (RVT) software efficiently utilizes the vast amount of data in the satellite data stream to allow easy and rapid viewing of a wide variety of scene and to perform meteorological processing algorithms on this data. Without the satellite's full data stream, this would not be possible.