Scientists are always interested in data and these days they have floods of it. Just consider that a researcher studying climate has to manage measurements from decades of satellites with different instruments and resolutions and hundreds of years of ground measurements, all totaling millions of data points. How can one person make sense of that...Read More

How do you know a hurricane is coming?  Do you see the clouds rolling in?  Do you hear it on the radio, television news, or online?   There are many different methods of receiving severe weather warnings:   the Emergency Broadcast System on your television, NOAA Weather Radio, and phone apps, to name a few.  Some communities...Read More

Mobile computing has much more serious applications than sling shooting infuriated birds across the solar system. When it comes to observation of the Earth from satellites, there is always a need to perform ground truthing. This is when a person checks that the ground really looks like the data that has been recorded by a...Read More

Cloud computing is all the rage these days, and for good reason. With information and files stored on common servers, accessible from anywhere with internet access, what’s not to like? When businesses move their applications to the Cloud, it becomes a little more challenging. More challenging yet: setting up satellite data in the Cloud. For...Read More

In April, INNOVIM, LLC became one of fourteen enterprises to graduate from the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce GovConNet Institute. INNOVIM’s successful completion of the program earned the company the GovConNet Institute for Procurement Certification. The course helps strengthen INNOVIM’s core business practices in compliance, human resource management, and capture strategies as the company continues...Read More

Earth observation specialist and National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration contractor INNOVIM LLC congratulates the U.S. agency on receiving the 2013 Space Achievement Award. The award is granted each year by the Space Foundation in recognition of significant contributions to advancing exploration, development, or use of space. NOAA received the award at the 29th Annual National Space Symposium in...Read More

We all know the devastation that wildfires can cause. We see the footage of billowing smoke, exhausted firefighters, and evacuated houses. We hear the containment statistics day by day as the raging fire is brought under control. And then – it’s out. Life goes back to normal. Or does it? There is a whole world...Read More