Hi. I have been talking with some of my colleagues at work about various atmospheric models, and we recently received the recommendation to use DTM2020 for our OD process. I’ve found DTM2000 in Orekit; are there any plans to include DTM2020 in future releases? Thanks.
No, we can’t include any new DTM model past DTM2000 because of licensing issues.
The licensing terms are:
CNES, the Met Office and Elecnor Deimos grant to the Licensee a free non-exclusive
and non-transferable license for the MCM software for academic, non-commercial,
purposes only. CNES grants to the Licensee a free non-exclusive and non-transferable
license for the DTM software for academic, non-commercial, purposes only. A user of
MCM or DTM software shall not:
use it for any non-academic, commercial purposes,
make any modification or improvement to the Software,
disseminate it or partly disseminate it, or any of its supporting data
copy it except for archival or emergency repair