Formosat-7 data set for public release

2020/03/10

Taiwan’s National Space Organization (NSPO) announced March 6 that data from satellite constellation Formosat-7 is now available to the public.
 
 According to NSPO, the data collected in tandem with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is released daily at 2 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time. This is made possible by the joint Taiwan-U.S. launch of six satellites in June of last year.
 
 The information can be accessed via the website of the Space Weather Operational Office under Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau, said Cheng Chia-ping, CWB deputy director-general, and will be integrated into daily weather forecasts. The move is expected to increase forecast accuracy by as much as 10 percent.
 
 With the range of monitoring focused at mid and low latitudes, Formosat-7 can gather more in-depth information about typhoons and monsoons than previously possible, enabling greater disaster preparedness, NSPO said.
 
 NSPO has also collaborated with National Central University and National Cheng Kung University in addition to the CWB to develop Taiwan Radio Occultation Processing System, a platform aimed at strengthening real-time processing of data collected by satellites.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)