Belfort Instrument Company

Belfort Instrument Company is a specialized manufacturer of meteorological and climate-observation equipment. Its product range includes the DigiWx Automated Weather System, an integrated weather-observation platform reported to have been installed at various airports, as well as the Fisher & Porter rain gauge. These products place the company within the professional weather-instrumentation sector, serving organizations that require systematic measurement and reporting of atmospheric conditions. The company’s offerings are oriented toward operational observation rather than consumer weather products. Airport installations indicate a role in infrastructure-based weather monitoring, where reliable data collection can support aviation operations and broader environmental observation. The Fisher & Porter rain gauge is associated with precipitation measurement, while the DigiWx system represents a more integrated approach to automated weather monitoring. Belfort Instrument Company has also been associated with work for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Air Resources Laboratory. The company currently has a contract with the laboratory to evaluate climate-observing systems, indicating involvement in applied assessment and development work alongside its equipment-manufacturing activities. Publicly available reference material provides limited information about the company’s founding, ownership, headquarters, corporate structure, leadership, financial performance, and current market footprint. Accordingly, this entry focuses on its documented meteorological products and government-related climate-observation work rather than making unsupported claims about its size or commercial reach.

Belfort Instrument Company is documented as a manufacturer of meteorological products and systems. The available reference material does not establish a founding date, founder, early corporate history, ownership chronology, or the location of its headquarters. Its identifiable business activity is centered on instruments and systems used to observe weather and climate conditions. A notable part of the company’s product history is the DigiWx Automated Weather System. The system has been installed at various airports, linking Belfort’s equipment to operational weather observation in aviation environments. Airport weather systems generally support the collection and presentation of atmospheric measurements needed by facilities and users that depend on timely local weather information, although the available reference does not specify individual airport customers, installation dates, system configurations, or contract values. The company is also known for the Fisher & Porter rain gauge, a product associated with precipitation measurement. This product gives Belfort a presence in the more established instrument category of rainfall observation, complementing its automated-system activities. The available material does not provide a complete product catalogue or technical specifications for the gauge. In its more recent documented activities, Belfort Instrument Company has a contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Air Resources Laboratory to evaluate climate-observing systems. This relationship connects the company with public-sector environmental research and assessment. The reference material does not specify the contract’s value, duration, detailed scope of work, or evaluation results, so those details are not included here. Overall, the documented history of Belfort Instrument Company is that of a focused meteorological-technology business whose products span automated weather observation, airport installations, precipitation measurement, and climate-observing-system evaluation. Public sources cited for this dossier do not support a fuller account of its corporate development, leadership, geographic expansion, financial condition, or present ownership.

• DigiWx Automated Weather System associated with airport installations

  [1]Belfort Instrument Companyen.wikipedia.org

  The company’s DigiWx Automated Weather System has been installed at various airports, establishing a documented application in operational aviation weather observation.

• NOAA Air Resources Laboratory climate-observing evaluation contract

  [1]Belfort Instrument Companyen.wikipedia.org

  Belfort Instrument Company is documented as holding a contract with NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory to evaluate climate-observing systems. The available source does not state the contract date, value, or final results.

Specialized provider of professional meteorological and climate-observation instrumentation for airport, environmental, and public-sector monitoring applications.

• Automated weather-observation system

  DigiWx Automated Weather System

  DigiWx is an automated weather system associated with Belfort Instrument Company. It has been installed at various airports, indicating use in infrastructure-based weather monitoring and the collection or presentation of operational atmospheric data. Publicly available reference material identifies the system and its airport applications but does not provide a complete technical specification, product-generation history, or customer list.

• Precipitation-measurement instrument

  Fisher & Porter rain gauge

  The Fisher & Porter rain gauge is a precipitation-measurement product for recording rainfall. It is one of the instruments for which Belfort Instrument Company is noted. The available reference does not identify its launch date, exact mechanism, current production status, or detailed performance specifications.

1. 1Belfort Instrument Companyen.wikipedia.org