Kisters

Environmental and hydro-meteorological observation data held inside operational infrastructure the group builds and runs: river/lake level-and-velocity gauge telemetry (HYQUANT), data-acquisition-and-telemetry networks, environmental sensor and non-contact radar measurement, fire-weather data analytics, hail-risk observations, a FieldVisits field-data-collection app, plus two explicit data products — 'Raster data as a service' and an 'Environmental cloud data hub'. The commercially interesting latent asset is not the raw gauge readings (those belong to the public agencies who own the stations) but the derived layers KISTERS necessarily accumulates: gridded raster fields it produces and resells, hail-swath/hail-risk climatologies from its agro-meteorological and hail-mapping practice, fire-weather derived indices, and instrument-level QC/calibration and telemetry-fault records generated across thousands of installed stations in many climate zones.

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Type: not stated
Format: Multimodal: tabular station telemetry and time series, gridded raster fields (explicit raster-data-as-a-service product), plus field-collected records with photos/GPS from the FieldVisits app; delivered through software platforms and a cloud data hub rather than a public API
Volume: Very large but mostly custodial. Inside the platforms the group operates, the hosted corpus spans thousands of public-sector gauge, radar and environmental sensor stations in multiple countries at sub-hourly cadence over decades — order 10^10-10^11 sensor observations, plus the gridded raster archive sold as 'Raster data as a service'. The licensable subset is much smaller: KISTERS-owned derived products (raster service layers, hail-event and hail-risk datasets, fire-weather derived indices, QC/calibration and fault records). The custodial share belongs to the agency customers and is not for sale.
Users: No public user accounts - licensing is enterprise and public-agency contracts. Institutional footprint instead: five regional companies (Germany/global, APAC, Spain, LATAM, France) plus a North America headquarters in Boerne TX, a distribution and calibration centre in Lake Worth Beach FL and a Canadian office in Fredericton NB, serving national weather, water and environmental agencies and hydropower/utilities; the German parent runs to several hundred employees (installed-station and licence counts are not published - request at contact)
History: 40 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active and mature: a current full product portfolio with dedicated support infrastructure (Jira service desk, protected customer portal, separate software and instrument support channels, calibration and certification services) and a multi-continent site network. The group has been through a public-listing phase and a subsequent consolidation under family/holding control, and continues to push a cloud-and-data-services direction (cloud data hub, raster-data-as-a-service) — an installed-base business adding data products, not a start-up scaling users.
Launched: ~1978 for the KISTERS group in Aachen, with the hydro-meteorological data and software line (the relevant one here) established in the 1980s-1990s; the cloud data hub and raster-data-as-a-service offerings are far more recent (2010s-2020s additions)
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