Mobile Assets for Collecting Weather Information - The Aviation Example

Abstract

Aviation and meteorology have grown up together through a mutually beneficial relationship (Haupt et al. 2019, Stith et al. 2019). Weather affects the safety, efficiency and reliability of aviation, and aviation is one of the key contributors of weather data aloft, thus enhancing weather prediction. At present, aviation is undergoing a dramatic transformation (Fig. 1) through the rise of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aerial vehicles envisioned for on-demand ridesharing across metropolitan areas (Steiner 2019). This emerging advanced aerial mobility will occupy the lowest layers of the atmosphere (5,000 feet and below), an altitude band that has been largely devoid of weather observations. Thus, imagine a future in which every aeronautical vehicle operating in the airspace system of the United States (or globally) would provide consistent, in situ weather observations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1137497

Entities

People

  • Matt Fronzak
  • Matthias Steiner
  • Mike Robinson
  • Tom Becher

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Transportation
  • Aircrafts
  • Best Practices
  • Big Data
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Data Analysis
  • Environment
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Data
  • Meteorology
  • Safety
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Vehicles
  • Weather
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerial Unmanned Vehicle Swarm Micro Periodontal Dentistry.
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space