Today, Wednesday 10 July 2019, marked the launch of the Spire Global Luxembourg Data Lake.
Spire Global, one of the world's largest space-to-cloud analytics companies, today announced the launch of Spire Global Luxembourg's open source Data Lake as of 10 July 2019. The Spire Data Lake is accessible free of charge to all start-ups, research institutes and public agencies in Luxembourg. These entities will be provided with sets of proprietary, differentiating, high-quality data for research and non-commercial product development activities.
Luxembourg is now home to one of the world's largest Data Lake for space data analytics. This collaborative initiative is co-funded by the Luxembourg Space Agency through its National Space Programme (LuxIMPULSE) and is designed to promote the development of commercial space research by providing consistently reliable, critical data at no cost to the public, academic and research communities.
The data sets to be offered by Spire include Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, which is used for tracking the movements of ships and vessels across the world, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data, which is used for tracking aeroplanes across global airways. It also contains cutting-edge Radio Occultation data (GNSS-RO), a key element of weather forecasts. GNSS-RO allows for unprecedented levels of precision in all meteorological prevision efforts by providing comprehensive, global, high density data and detailed atmospheric layer information that traditional data collection methods fail to capture. In addition, Spire will provide Total Electron Content (TEC), offering users constant assessments of the state of the ionosphere, which increases the accuracy of navigation (GNSS).
"We are extremely excited to contribute even further to the dynamism and cross-pollination efforts of the commercial space ecosystem in Luxembourg," said Peter Platzer, CEO and Co-Founder of Spire Global. "It is our conviction that our data will empower Luxembourg to attract ambitious companies looking for an enabling environment for research and product development by providing Luxembourg with a unique differentiator on the global business marketplace".
Marc Serres, CEO of the Luxembourg Space Agency, added: "There are numerous present and future opportunities for space data in the energy, transport and logistics sectors, just to name a few. Also, global challenges due to growing populations, increased demand for resources and climate change require information about our planet which space based solutions can provide. Following the launch of the LSA Data Center, the Space Analytics Data Lake is a key component of our strategy, which will stimulate the development of new downstream services and products in Luxembourg".
Spire's data and analytics illuminate parts of the world where collecting data is notoriously difficult, tracking ships, aeroplanes and weather and in remote regions which often go unmonitored.
