Challenge  

Volcanic ash constitutes a weather phenomenon which is rare, yet particularly dangerous for aviation. Modern civil and military aviation, therefore, need precise information in order to plan in advance and enable the mitigation of hazardous effects.

Optimized route planning esp. for unmanned aircraft (such as NATO-AGS, HAPS), for sensitive cargo and refuelling as well an improved recognized air picture can be enabled by satellite based ash and dust detection and nowcasting. In addition this weather hazard data can be integrated with other aviation weather data based on spatio-temporal data cubes.

Dust over Europe (source: DWD)

Volcanic ash over Europe (source: DWD)

 

  Capability Demonstrated  

The service holds timeseries datacubes of dust and volcanic ash data, prepared by German DWD, federated with lighting hazard and further aviation-relevant weather datacubes sitting on other servers.

Visualization of both base data and weather-relevant derived products is available through the rasdaman dashboard client as well as any OGC compliant 3rd party client. This allows displaying thunderstorm hazards over target regions, such as the NATO Sigonella AGS area. The effects of climate change get recorded by measuring the height of severe thunderstorms and their regional frequency.


 

  Benefit  

Aviation planning and flight reaches a new level through:

 

  Demonstrator  

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  Contributors  

rasdaman GmbH
Constructor University L-SIS Research Group

Weather hazard data by DWD GmbH, service setup and operation by rasdaman GmbH, project management by Constructor University L-SIS Research Group.

 

  Terms of Reference 

This service is part of the Cube4EnvSec project whose Terms of Reference apply in full.

Image credits: Sabrina de Polo NUR Photo REX; EUMETSAT; ATRDRIVER.

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