Software and services for processing and visualizing meteorological, climatological and cartographic data
ask – Innovative Visualisierungslösungen GmbH
Darmstadt (DE)New on Amplifa
About ask
ask – Innovative Visualisierungslösungen GmbH develops software and services for the processing and visualization of meteorological, climatological and cartographic data. The company, founded in 1995 in Darmstadt as a spin-off from a research project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, specializes in visualization, broadcast computer graphics and the automated generation of documents. Core products are the weather graphics system TriVis Weather Graphix for broadcast, online and print, the automated weather content service ASKMeteo, and participations in meteorological workstations such as NinJo. Further business areas include data distribution, aviation weather solutions (METFROG, Met4Airports-AI, WTQ-Service), self-briefing for aviation and maritime navigation, as well as earth observation and satellite data visualization for EUMETSAT. Customers include ten national weather services, EUMETSAT and ZDF; solutions are used worldwide, from Scandinavia to South Africa and from the Caribbean to Asia. Since 2009 the company has been located in the "The Eye" office building in Darmstadt.
- Site
- Darmstadt
- Processes
- Weather graphics for broadcast and media (TriVis Weather Graphix), Weather content production (ASKMeteo, automated graphics/animation production), Data distribution (audited weather data worldwide), Meteorological workstations (among others NinJo), Aviation weather solutions (METFROG, Met4Airports-AI, WTQ-Service), Self-briefing for aviation and maritime navigation (SkyView/SeaView), Software Engineering / Custom Software Development and Consulting, Climatological data analysis (Climate Data Center)
- Materials
- TriVis Weather Graphix, ASKMeteo, Meteorological Workstations (among others NinJo), Aviation Weather Solutions
- Founded
- 1995
- Industries
- Meteorological Services (public and private), Broadcast/Media, Aviation / Air Traffic Control, Earth Observation, Climatology, Maritime Navigation
- 01
Workflow Analysis
- 02
Solution Design
- 03
Implementation
- 04
Custom Design
- 05
Project Management
- 06
Support, Training and On-Site Installation
Fields of Competence and Standards
TriVis Weather Graphix
Weather graphics system for broadcast, online, social media and print with 2D/3D visualization in 4K formats.
ASKMeteo
Automated service for the production of weather graphics and animations for small weather services and TV stations.
Meteorological Workstations (among others NinJo)
Contribution to the next generation of weather analysis solutions since 2001.
Aviation Weather Solutions
Tools for air traffic controllers and pilots from flight planning to landing, incl. self-briefing (SkyView/SeaView).
Location
Darmstadt
DEHead Office / Headquarters (since 2009 in the "The Eye" office building)
Industries
Additional services
Reference customers
History
- 1992
TriVis Weather Graphix has been used daily in on-air weather productions since December 1992
- 1995
Founded in Darmstadt from a research project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics with DWD, Hessischer Rundfunk and SMHI; Fraunhofer Prize for Information Technology
- 2001
First code contributions to the international NinJo weather workstation project
- 2009
Move to the "The Eye" office building, Darmstadt