Pricing
All levels of service and data sets include the following:
- User documentation
- Member-only access to the IRADS web portal
- 24/7 system monitoring and automated notification of system status via cell phone, pager or email
- Toll-free hotline staffed around the clock
- A variety of user productivity tools
NEXRAD Level II Data Pricing
IRADS provides low-latency, streaming WSR-88D (NEXRAD) Level II (base) data from all radars provided by the National Weather Service - free of charge to academic users, and for the cost of provision to federal government and private sector users. The service levels and associated cost rates are listed below.
Service Level | Features | Yearly Fee | Billing Cycle |
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Platinum | All NWS NEXRAD Radars | $29,250.00 | Quarterly |
Gold | Up to one half of all NWS NEXRAD Radars | $19,013.00 | Quarterly |
Silver | Up to one fourth of all NWS NEXRAD Radars | $11,700.00 | Quarterly |
Bronze | Up to one tenth of all NWS NEXRAD Radars | $7,312.00 | Quarterly |
Canadian Radar (CANRAD) Data Pricing
Customers purchasing CANRAD data directly from Environmental Canada (EC) receive the pushed data via FTP. When purchased through IRADS, customers receive data via our LDM server and do not need to maintain a server running FTP, and LDM is secure. A full data feed purchased directly from EC costs about $24,000 per year ($2000/month), plus a $2000 one-time setup fee. IRADS has no setup fee, and cost for a full feed is listed in the table below.
Features | Yearly Fee | Billing Cycle |
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All CANRAD Radars | $13,000.00 | Quarterly |
NOAAPort (Level III) Data Pricing
NEXRAD Level III satellite data products via NOAAPort. (WMO, NTEXT, NGRID, FSL2, NIMAGE, and NOther feeds. More feeds as made available by NOAA).
Features | Yearly Fee | Billing Cycle |
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NOAAPort satellite data | $1,500 | Quarterly |
Cooperative Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD Technology (CONDUIT) Data Pricing
Features | Yearly Fee | Billing Cycle |
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CONDUIT data | $1,500 | Quarterly |