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Tomorrow.io’s radar satellites use machine learning to punch well above their weight
Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less privileged, weather forecasting and
Weather prediction is complex for a lot of reasons, but the interplay between high-powered but legacy hardware (like radar networks and older satellites) and modern software is a big one. In a series of experiments that the company is planning to publish in a journal later this year, Tomorrow claims that with only one radar band and a fraction of the mass, their satellites can produce results on par with NASA’s GPM and ground-based systems. Across a variety of tasks, the R1 and R2 satellites were able to make similarly accurate or even better and more precise predictions and observations as GPM, and their results also tallied closely with the ground radar data.
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