CSDA - Vendor PlanetiQ
NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program has acquired commercial datasets from PlanetiQ.
PlanetiQ provides Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) data to support weather and climate forecasting and modeling, as well as space weather. PlanetiQ's satellites carry the "Pyxis" RO sensor, capable of receiving signals from all four global GNSS constellations [GPS (U.S.), GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (Europe), and Beidou (China)], and delivering high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) GNSS-RO data with very high vertical resolution that can enhance observations of Earth's atmosphere, including into the lower troposphere and boundary layer, where the majority of atmospheric water vapor resides and most weather occurs.
The PlanetiQ data acquired by CSDA includes:
- Neutral Atmospheric Refractivity Retrieval
- Ionosphere Scintillation Calibrated Phase
- Ionosphere Total Electron Content
- Neutral Atmosphere Calibrated Phase
Authorized Data Use and Users
All members of the U.S. Government, and researchers funded by the U.S. Government, have access to the PlanetiQ Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) data products.
End User License Agreement
Obtaining Data
To request access to CSDA-distributed data, complete the CSDA Authorization form. The CSDA team will verify if the user is authorized for data access.
Copyright
Data products and derivatives for imagery must contain the following copyright markings (YYYY is the year of the image acquisition):
- For data products: "© PlanetiQ YYYY. All rights reserved."
- For derivatives: "Includes copyrighted material of PlanetIQ All rights reserved."
- A joint copyright notice may be used as appropriate
Authorized users should send CSDA a courtesy copy of any publications that include CSDA-provided data.
CSDA Acknowledgement
To help CSDA identify your publications, we request that you include the following acknowledgement when publishing work created using these data:
"This work utilized data made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program."
Evaluation
PlanetiQ's quality assessment and data evaluation reports will be made available in the first quarter of 2026.
Additional Information
For more information about PlanetiQ's commercial GNSS-RO data holdings available through NASA's CSDA program see the PlanetiQ NASA CSDA Vendor Focus webinar presentation.