Tag: Weather

PRESS RELEASE: TruWeather Solutions and DRONERESPONDERS Partner to Bring Advanced Digital Weather Services to Public Safety

The collection of hyper-local data marks a pivotal shift, greatly enhancing weather measurements for winds above tree lines and buildings.

Winter’s Warm Embrace: The El Niño Effect

As the winter season approaches, meteorologists consistently encounter a similar set of questions each year: How cold will it be? When will it snow? How much snow will there be? This winter is a moderate/strong El Niño and lasts into spring. But what does that mean? What is El Niño? El Niño refers to part…
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What is ‘Microweather’?

Key Take-Aways: The scale of microweather is known as 1 km x 1 km. Microweather requires extensive computing power and more detailed granular observations to produce reliable information. Ground-based sensors allow real-time verification of the forecast data and enhance the accuracy of the modeled forecast over time. In short, the sensors are the glue that…
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North Carolina Taking Aviation Forecasting to a New Level, the Low-Altitude Airspace

Key Take-Aways: North Carolina study assessed low-altitude weather phenomena by using ground-based sensors to capture real-time weather data critical for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). The assessment’s results provide critical information for infrastructure, flight routes, and ground operations planning considerations across North Carolina to enable AAM. Washington Warren Airport is on a growing list of weather…
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Beyond Ordinary

TruWeather Solutions Prototypes Urban Weather Sensing Infrastructure

Hampton Mayor, Donnie Tuck: “Through its relationship with NASA LaRC (Langley Research Center), Hampton has been in the forefront of innovation, and is a national hub for unmanned systems. We are proud to partner with TruWeather as they develop and hone cutting-edge weather technology.”

Exponential Growth: Finding and Filling Data Gaps

Written by Brian Bell, VP Product and Revenue Even in a world where we may feel overwhelmed by the overabundance of data, there remain critical data gaps. Those gaps are opportunities to expand human knowledge, increase economic activity, and improve living standards. Let’s first recognize that data don’t drive these benefits; people do. Like oil,…
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Laying the Groundwork of Global Standardization for UAS

Key Take Away: The F38 committee has a goal to set clear strategy for identifying and expediently developing high quality standards for safe, routine UAS operations in the civil airspace, globally. Minimum safety, performance, and flight proficiency requirements Quality assurance that aircraft manufacturing conforms to design criteria Production acceptance tests and procedures A baseline plan…
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Weather woes

BY KEITH BUTTON|FEBRUARY 2022 Safely moving cargo and passengers among buildings and just over treetops will require unique weather information. Keith Button looks at ideas for collecting and delivering the required forecasts and real-time knowledge of conditions. The helicopter crash that killed basketball great Kobe Bryant and eight others was a tragic example of the dangers…
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