Unisphere and Meteomatics to help increase safety and automation for flight operation of drones and air taxis
Flight management software company Unisphere and weather data expert Meteomatics have signed a cooperation agreement to improve the safety and efficiency of flight operations with drones and air taxis.
Under this agreement, Unisphere will provide its customers with automated flight management services for drones and air taxis that will include accurate weather data from Meteomatics. Pilot knowledge is transferred into the software to automate decision making, realise efficiencies and make cost savings.
While Meteomatics will deliver accurate weather forecasts with and accuracy down to 90m directly to Unisphere where the information is being aggregated with aeronautical information, geodata, aircraft performance, operational limitations, and sensor characteristics.
The resulting 4‑D trajectories include pilot knowledge and all relevant information required for every individual flight. Unisphere provides the trajectories to its customers worldwide through API or user interface.
Christoph Schlettig, Founder of Unisphere, said: “The powerful weather data API and the accuracy of weather information made Meteomatics the logical choice for us. Their enthusiasm to integrate specific requests will provide our customers the quality of weather data required to automate drone operations.”
“At Meteomatics, we operate Meteodrones ourselves since 2012, added Dr. Martin Fengler, CEO. “We certainly see the flight management platform of Unisphere as a mandatory service to enable highly automated flight operation of unmanned aircraft and we are proud to support flight safety.”
The collaboration between both companies marks an exciting development for the aerospace community. The integration of highly accurate weather information with aeronautical engineering and optimisation algorithms in a performant cloud infrastructure provides users a unique service to plan and execute their flight operations of unmanned aircraft.
