MetraWeather WeatherScape XT
Description
WHY WEATHERSCAPE?
A good weather service offers broadcasters multiple benefits.
It keeps your audience informed, engaged and – most importantly – safe.
It enhances and promotes your brand and image, and it provides welcome additional revenue through sponsorship.
PUT WEATHERSCAPE TO WORK FOR YOU!
Increase your ratings by giving viewers useful, easy to understand weather information to help them with their day-to-day decisions. Your weather show will become an important part of their daily routine and the sponsorship and advertising it generates will provide additional revenue.
Traditional weather content such as temperature and rainfall are the bare minimum in today’s information rich society. Put events into context, relate them to your country or region and help your viewers to stay one step ahead.
Climate change events are now a regular part of the news. Be ready to report on them fully and authoritatively.
GALLERY
Don’t take our word for it, below are some sample scenes all created using Weatherscape XT.
ADVANCED VISUALISATIONS
3D MODELLING
Brochure:
| Service Features | |
|---|---|
| Platform description | The world's leading weather news graphics platform driving ratings higher for broadcasters |
| Seamless data integration | Displays numerical weather prediction model data from ECMWF, GFS and other leading NWP models, plus National Weather Service forecasts, radar, warnings and lightning |
| Custom styling | Custom graphics design can be performed in-house or with assistance from experienced MetraWeather designers to match network look and feel |
| User interface | User friendly graphical user interface (GUI) makes scene and story creation a breeze |
| Installed base | Over 100 systems installed around the world; 20+ years of broadcast experience |
| Audience benefits | Keeps audience informed, engaged and safe; enhances brand and image; provides revenue through sponsorship |
| Product Editions | |
| Weatherscape Clip | MetraWeather's Design Team creates a look unique to your brand; complete weather show delivered at scheduled times each day; no special hardware required; scheduled content delivery; your branding |
| Weatherscape Solo | Uses all the power of Weatherscape Enterprise for content design and real-time playout, hosted on a single high-specification workstation; create your own content; unlimited potential; low-cost studio solution |
| Weatherscape Enterprise | Highly scalable architecture supporting many users and multiple locations, studios and broadcast centres; create, edit, play and publish unlimited content; complete solution; multiple studio locations; pro-services support |
| Graphics Capabilities | |
| Google Earth Studio integration | Integrate Google Earth Studio scenes |
| Snow depth simulation | Visualise snow depth |
| City simulations | Render city skylines with cloud and wind (e.g., Melbourne) |
| Depth of field and distance haze effects | Cinematic atmospheric rendering |
| Atmospheric data overlays | Display upper-air and atmospheric data |
| Explainer graphics | Educational and explanatory weather graphics |
| Fly-over animations | Fly-over animations with ocean wave modelling |
| Skyline simulations | City skyline visualisations |
| Dynamic 3D clouds | Data-driven 3D cloud rendering |
| Use Cases | |
| Daily weather bulletins | Live news weather segments for TV broadcasters |
| Climate change reporting | Authoritative reporting on climate events as a regular part of the news |
| Severe weather coverage | Rapid bulletin assembly when weather news breaks |
| Online and mobile clip services | Customised clip services for use across Broadcast, online and mobile, including city-specific information, snow forecasts and mountain flyovers |
| Media API | Location-based forecasts, observations, radar and satellite information to news and media websites (e.g., Sky News Weather, Prime7, ABC in Australia) |
| Reference Clients | |
| Al Jazeera | Weatherscape XT client |
| ABC (Australia) | Weatherscape XT client |
| Nine Network | Weatherscape XT client |
| SBS | Weatherscape XT client |
| Seven Network | Weatherscape XT client |
