Weather & Climate blog

Driving next-generation AI-powered voyage optimization with weather data

It’s a regular gray smoggy day in 2050 in Los Angeles as the city wakes up and sets out to work with its residents wearing air filtration masks.

Leveraging global space-powered weather data to scale voluntary carbon markets

As climate change causes an increase in the intensity and frequency of storms, wildfires, droughts and other extreme weather events, the permanence of nature-based mitigation projects is increasingly threatened.

COP 27: Turning the tide on climate change drives business value

Here’s a question: is what’s good for the planet also good business?

COP 27: 4 ways AIS and weather data can be used to reduce maritime carbon emissions

More decisive actions and commitments are expected at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (COP27): 2022 is the ‘Super Year of the Ocean’ and the UN-Ocean Conference reached a collective agreement earlier this year among governments to implement “science-based, innovative” solutions to curb ocean warming.

Customer Spotlight - Gale Force: Leveraging advanced technologies to help vessels optimally navigate the high seas

How has Gale Force, a weather routing business, helped the maritime industry save 500,000 metric tons of C02 annually?

What role did climate change play in Pakistan’s devastating floods?

This is one of the greatest natural disasters faced by this Third World nation that already faces a myriad of challenges such as poverty, political instability and security.

Facilitating marine debris detection with advanced ocean forecasts

Could there be more plastic in the sea than fish by the year 2050?

Customer Spotlight - Sinay: Harnessing the power of data to build sustainable maritime operations

As you may know, at Spire, we’re trying to do our bit to help solve real-world challenges from space.

Earth Day 2022 - Observed from Space

It’s Time to Invest in our Pale Blue Dot

Leveraging the power of satellite data to mitigate the global supply chain crisis

This article is the first in a series covering the worldwide supply chain disruptions and how Spire’s global solutions are helping alleviate these pain points across diverse industries including maritime, aviation and weather.

How port weather forecasts can help with maritime operations

Spire’s Data Used in Winning Solutions for the Deloitte Gravity Challenge

With the official launch of Deloitte’s GRAVITY Challenge 04 in 2022, Spire has renewed its commitment as a Data and Technology Provider for the “space innovation program connecting real world problems with the people who can solve them.”

The economic impact of climate change on ports

What do you do if the world’s busiest port shuts down due to poor weather conditions?