The name GEOCAST reflects our core purpose: Geospatial Environmental Observation & CASTing data in real time.
Many monitoring systems across the United States still produce valuable signals GNSS reference stations, weather mesonets, hydrology gauges, coastal platforms, and other environmental sensors. But a large portion of these systems operate on legacy hardware, aging telemetry, or software pipelines that are no longer supported.
GEOCAST was created to help modernize that process. Our aim is to take raw or outdated data streams and cast them forward into modern, automated workflows that communities, researchers, and partner organizations can actually use in real time.
Today, GEOCAST supports sensor networks, open-data tools, and digital preservation projects that help people understand the world around them from environmental changes to historical records carved in stone. Whether we’re converting a legacy GNSS data format, deploying a new sensor node, or digitally documenting a century-old monument, the mission remains the same: turn signals into stories that endure.
When you visit GEOCAST, you’re not looking at just one idea, you’re seeing a growing family of projects that all share the same goal: take geospatial and environmental data that’s hard to use, and make it meaningful in real time.
The U.S. operates a broad ecosystem of geospatial and environmental monitoring stations numbering in the tens of thousands when combining GNSS networks, mesonet weather sites, hydrology sensors, and coastal or seismic platforms. A significant portion of these stations are approaching end-of-life hardware, outdated telemetry systems, or unsupported software pipelines. GEOCAST’s mission is to extend the usefulness of these nodes by creating modern, automated workflows that can process legacy formats and support organizations as they transition to next-generation instrumentation.
GEOCAST’s goal is to help keep that data alive:
Some partners will choose to donate retired equipment; others may work with us to modernize what they already have. Either way, the focus is the same: don’t let good data die just because the support contract did.
TMDA is a GEOCAST hosted initiative focused on preserving the details of Texas’ 1936 Centennial monuments before time erases them. Using photography, LIDAR, and digital archiving, TMDA documents friezes, inscriptions, and blueprints at sites like San Jacinto, Goliad, and Gonzales so that future generations can study the original record even if the stone changes.
It’s the same philosophy as the sensor work, just a different kind of signal: if we lose the monument, we shouldn’t lose the message.
Modern fieldwork depends on reliable connectivity. GEOCAST experiments with eSIM-based setups and hardware bundles to help teams upload data, monitor nodes, and collaborate from remote locations without locking anyone into a single carrier or device ecosystem.
These kits are designed so that small organizations, students, and community groups can participate in serious data collection without needing a full-time network engineer on staff.
If your organization operates aging GNSS stations, environmental sensors, or has historical data you’re afraid of losing, we’d love to talk. GEOCAST is built for collaboration and we’re actively looking for partners who want to keep good data and good stories alive.