Lidar For Weather Forecasting Market: Latest Developments in Japan & US and Global Market Trends

Lidar For Weather Forecasting Market reached US$ 630 million in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 2,449 million by 2031, growing with a CAGR of 18.5% during the forecast period 2024-2031.

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for weather forecasting sends laser pulses into the atmosphere and measures backscattered light from aerosols, clouds, and hydrometeors. From returned signals you can derive wind profiles (Doppler LiDAR), cloud/visibility/ceiling structure (ceilometers), aerosol loading, and fine-scale vertical structure - data that improves short-term nowcasting, boundary-layer modelling, and assimilation into numerical weather prediction systems.

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↬ Latest news - Japan:

➣ Japanese research groups deployed ceilometers and complementary instruments during a Southern Ocean campaign; lidar observations produced new insights into supercooled liquid water in clouds that could affect polar-cloud modelling.

➣ Japanese startups and industry players have announced joint capital/business activity around Doppler LiDAR systems to visualize 3-D wind fields for urban and marine applications - a sign of growing commercialization.

➣ National programs continued investing in atmospheric observing capability, including a new climate-monitoring satellite whose data complements ground and airborne remote sensing like LiDAR.

↬ Latest news - United States:

➣ NASA completed flights of an advanced 3-D Doppler wind lidar across the U.S., including missions sampling tropical systems and severe weather, demonstrating capability to improve wind and aerosol profiling.

➣ Research centers rolled out higher-resolution operational forecast experiments (kilometre-scale), increasing demand for high-quality observational inputs such as LiDAR wind and vertical-structure profiles for model initialisation and verification.

➣ Policy discussions about satellite data access and resilience in observing systems have highlighted the value of diversified networks; ground and airborne LiDAR networks are increasingly seen as important complements to satellites.

↬ Market Trends:

➣ Growing adoption in meteorology and aviation: airports, wind farms, and smart-city projects are increasingly buying Doppler LiDAR for wind profiling and safety-critical nowcasting.

➣ Integration with high-resolution NWP and AI nowcasting: finer models and ML systems increase the value of dense vertical profiles from LiDAR for data assimilation and model training.

➣ Miniaturization and commercialization: sensors are getting smaller and cheaper, enabling drone/airborne deployment and opening recurring revenue models (DaaS/SaaS).

➣ Public funding & procurement tailwinds: investments by national weather services and space programs support procurement of ground and airborne LiDAR networks.

↬ Business opportunities:

➣ Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) / Nowcasting feeds - high-frequency vertical wind/visibility/aerosol feeds sold to airports, utilities, and renewable-energy operators.

➣ Network deployment & maintenance - regional LiDAR networks around airports, coastlines, and wind-farm clusters with recurring maintenance and calibration revenue.

➣ Integrated sensor + AI stack - bundle hardware with ML nowcasting and dashboards as a subscription service (high margin, sticky).

➣ OEM & institutional sales - supply Doppler LiDAR hardware and integration services to meteorological agencies, research institutions, and defense.

➣ Mission services - rapid-response drone/airborne profiling for hurricane research, wildfire plume monitoring, and emissions characterization (grant and contract revenue).

↬ Investment analysis - what investors should watch

➣ Market growth & positioning: the weather-focused LiDAR niche is expanding as meteorological adoption increases; favor companies combining hardware with recurring-data/software revenue.

➣ Shifting unit economics: hardware margins compress as sensors commoditise - software, analytics, and data licensing become the primary value drivers. Investors should prefer firms with recurring revenue (DaaS, SaaS, service contracts).

➣ Policy & funding exposure: national weather agencies and space programs can be large customers - track procurement cycles and policy shifts that could either open opportunities or create delays.

➣ Technical & integration risk: LiDAR has limitations in heavy precipitation and dense aerosols; companies that provide multi-sensor integration (radar + lidar + satellites) and strong calibration/QA will have competitive advantage.

➣ Exit landscape: likely acquirers include big geospatial, defense, and weather-tech firms. Firms with field-proven systems, software teams, and recurring revenue are more attractive for M&A.

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↬ Lidar For Weather Forecasting Industry News:

➣ NASA's airborne 3-D Doppler lidar flights (including hurricane sampling) demonstrate readiness to improve wind profiling.

➣ Japanese startups and industry collaborations are commercializing Doppler LiDAR for 3-D wind visualization and operational services.

➣ Higher-resolution forecasting and AI nowcasting projects are raising demand for high-quality atmospheric observations like LiDAR.

➣ Policy discussions on observing-system resilience have amplified interest in ground/airborne LiDAR networks as complements to satellite data.

↬ Lidar For Weather Forecasting Market: Industry Giants and Emerging Leaders:

Vaisala, FARO, Aerometrex, Kemira OYJ, Sick AG, SureStar, Hexagon AB, Teledyne Geospatial, Velodyne Lidar, Inc. and YellowScan.

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↬ Segment Covered in the Lidar For Weather Forecasting Market:

✔ By Type: Terrestrial, Aerial, Mobile, Short Range.

✔ By Component: Laser, Inertial Navigation System, Camera, GPS GNSS, Micro electro mechanical system.

✔ By Forecast: Nowcast, Short-Range, Medium-Range, Extended-Range, Long-Range.

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Regional Analysis for Lidar For Weather Forecasting Market:

⇥ North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)

⇥ Europe (U.K., Italy, Germany, Russia, France, Spain, The Netherlands and Rest of Europe)

⇥ Asia-Pacific (India, Japan, China, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia Rest of Asia Pacific)

⇥ South America (Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Rest of South America)

⇥ Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., South Africa, Rest of Middle East & Africa)

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