Published On: August 4, 2020

UNISPHERE AND METEOMATICS COOPERATE TO INCREASE SAFETY AND AUTOMATION FOR FLIGHT OPERATION OF DRONES

UNISPHERE AND METEOMATICS COOPERATE TO INCREASE SAFETY AND AUTOMATION FOR FLIGHT OPERATION OF DRONES
Logos of Unisphere and Meteomatics on a blue background

Konstanz / St. Gallen, 4th August 2020

The 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 software to:

Konstanz / St. Gallen, 4th August 2020

The 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 software to:

● automate decision-making

● realize efficiencies

● save costs

● automate decision-making

● realize efficiencies

● save costs

Automated flight management has an enormous potential to enable industries without aviation know-how, such as agriculture, logistics, traffic management, and more to operate unmanned aircraft safely and efficiently in a commercial context.

Automated flight management has an enormous potential to enable industries without aviation know-how, such as agriculture, logistics, traffic management, and more to operate unmanned aircraft safely and efficiently in a commercial context.

4D Trajectory Generation via High-Resolution Weather Data

4D Trajectory Generation via High-Resolution Weather Data

Meteomatics will deliver accurate weather forecasts with an accuracy down to 90m directly to Unisphere where the information is aggregated with:

Meteomatics will deliver accurate weather forecasts with an accuracy down to 90m directly to Unisphere where the information is aggregated with:

aeronautical information

geodata

aircraft performance

operational limitations

sensor characteristics

aeronautical information

geodata

aircraft performance

operational limitations

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.

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.

High-Performance Optimization for Airspace Management

High-Performance Optimization for Airspace Management

The collaboration of Meteomatics and Unisphere marks an exciting development for the aerospace community.

The integration of highly accurate weather information with aeronautical engineering and optimization algorithms in a performant cloud infrastructure provides users a unique service to plan and execute their flight operations of unmanned aircraft.

The collaboration of Meteomatics and Unisphere marks an exciting development for the aerospace community.

The integration of highly accurate weather information with aeronautical engineering and optimization algorithms in a performant cloud infrastructure provides users a unique service to plan and execute their flight operations of unmanned aircraft.

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

Christoph Schlettig, CEO of Unisphere, smiling.

Christoph Schlettig

Unisphere CEO

“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. 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

Martin Fengler

Meteomatics CEO

“At Meteomatics, we operate Meteodrones ourselves since 2012. 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.”