Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. is a State-of-Science custom white-label weather content provider to 14 of the 15 leading weather companies. We assist 3rd party developers to increase their design-wins and sales by adding customer value by embedding weather data feeds into their current applications.
Founded in 1999, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. has become a global leader in providing state-of-the-science weather detection, nowcasting, forecasting, and geo-mapping systems and services to our partners and customers. WDT is headquartered in Norman, Oklahoma and maintains an international marketing office in Arlington, Virginia.
WDT personnel have managed the development, integration and setup of advanced meteorological hardware/software systems and services for many clients both in the United States and internationally.
WDT has the unique capability of deploying field-proven state-of-the-science automated techniques to estimate and predict precipitation, detect and nowcast convective weather hazards, and detect and forecast aviation weather hazards. WDT has either developed, or licensed and operationalized, a series of applications and algorithms from leading weather research organizations such as the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, MIT/Lincoln Laboratory, and McGill University.
In the media industry, WDT provides weather content, iMap, and iMapMobile applications to over 600 media properties including: Fox Interactive Media, Scripps, ABC, Griffin Communications, Citadel and multiple other local media organizations. Our iMap capability is now the largest user of the Google Maps Flash API and the usage is growing >30% per month and statistically our average visit session lasts more than 8 minutes and the user interacts with the map >7 times.
WDT’s utilizes a white-label business model therefore we don not compete with our partners. We are the behind-the-scenes alerting, weather and geo-mapping engine for the majority of weather and media companies in America. We provide our partners with state-of-science technologies and a significant time-to-market advantage with differentiating exclusive content.
WDT provides our leading development partners access to over 300 of our media partners who may desire to take and market a partners product on their properties.
In 2008 WDT was the recipient of the Android Developer Challenge Award as a top 50 application for its iMap Weather location-based mobile weather application.
WDT provides our customer with industry leading technology well before our competitors. For example WDT enabled our clients with a 12-month to-to-market advantage for high resolution animated radar, and "follow me" weather.
- Weather is consistently rated in the top 3 of most viewed and utilized mobile applications
- MOTODEV partners can embed WDT weather technology into their applications
- WDT is a “silent” partner – we do not redirect viewers to our websites or require our logo to receive predominate display
- Robust API’s and documentation with live support for the non-weather developers
- Full suite of weather, alerting, video, ad-engine and geo-mapping products for easy integration into partner applications
- Exclusive content for global lighting, hurricane and storm damage assessment, Surface Boundary Layer Model that provides the highest resolution and accuracy with worldwide coverage
- Exclusive Geo-Plex technology enables more data types with higher resolution to be layered onto a weather map, faster, and utilizing fewer host processing cycles thereby improving battery life
- Ideal for lifestyle applications like skiing, boating, hiking, biking, … weather is embedded into the application providing a “blended” presentation and experience for the viewer, not a bolt-on “your father’s Oldsmobile experience.
- WDT alerting and weather products are natural “Plus-One” product enhancements for both consumer, productivity and enterprise applications:
- Lifestyle
- Calendar & Scheduling
- Contact and PIMs
- Gaming
- World’s first Level II Radar (128 colors) interactive weather map on Google Maps, Earth, VE
- World’s first multi-layer weather data provider in interactive maps
- World’s first location-based “follow me” weather provider on Google Android and iPhone
- World’s first provider of live storm chasing videos directly onto interactive map
- World’s first Hurricane Damage Assessment Tool
- World’s only worldwide lightning WWLLN provider on Google Maps
- World’s largest server of Google Tiles using the Google Flash API






