#CopterPortrait Meet Flik¹, the #multicopter we developed our first #PARASITE payload for. It's a commercial dji Mavic 3E drone typically used for photography. Here, Flik is measuring for the #TeamX campaign in #Austria, which will eventually improve #mountainWeather forecasts.

🌡️ Our PARASITE system (running ❄️ #NixOS) has several ventilated meteorological sensors on board for temperature and relative humidity.

💨 From all the data we get from copter and sensors we derive a fast 3D wind measurement. So yes: We can now measure #turbulence with a copter, without the need for an actual anemometer: The copter is our anemometer!

✅ Comparisons in #Falkenberg with a @DeutscherWetterdienst tower shows that the data quality is comparable to ultrasonic anemometers - the current gold standard of operational turbulence measurements.

¹ yes, from #Pixar's #BugsLife 🐜 😉

#meteorology #boundaryLayer

We're on our way to the #TeamX campaign¹, where we will use our PARASITE meteorological multicopter payload to profile the mountainous #InnValley in 🇦🇹 #Austria with temperature, humidity, particle, gas, wind and turbulence measurements to improve mountain weather forecast models.

¹https://www.teamx-programme.org/observational-campaign/

#Inntal #multicopter #drone #meteorology #science #atmosphere

🌤️🌨️ Umfangreiche Messungen zum Wetter in den Alpen

Mit 3 Forschungsflugzeugen, Wetterballons & Drohnen werden Daten zu Bewölkung und Niederschlag gesammelt. Die Aktion ist Teil der groß angelegten meteorologischen Messkampagne „TEAMx Observational Campaign (TOC)“.

Koordiniert wird die Kampagne durch Manuela Lehner und Mathias Rotach von der Uni Innsbruck.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2025/meteorologische-mega-messkampagne-in-den-alpen/

#Meteorologie #WMO #TEAMx

Our fleet of #multicopter​s is growing as we prepare for our part in the #TeamX¹ campaign in 🇦🇹 #Austria next month.

We'll provide valuable in-situ #temperature, #humidity, #wind and #turbulence measurements with our custom meteorological PARASITE system on multiple copters in parallel across the Inn valley. This data will help with understanding wind shear in mountainous regions and eventually improve
#mountainWeather forecasts.

Our PARASITEs carry several atmospheric sensors and we derive the turbulent 3D wind vector from the copter movements. @nobodyinperson suggested to name them like #BugsLife characters 🐛😉. He put a nicely customized ❄️ #NixOS in there to stay in control of the software, integrate it all and sync data e.g. to a #forgejoAneksajo instance (#forgejo with #gitAnnex support), our own or the one of @fzj_rdm during the VITAL campaign last year.

#Austria #Österreich #Inntal #Innsbruck #meteorology

¹https://www.teamx-programme.org/observational-campaign/

Whether with MS-DOS, the Apple Newton or #GaiaX – for 40 years, C&S Computer and Software has been digitising the #healthcare industry. In an interview, Managing Director Bruno Ristok now presents his work to me in the #TEAMX project. Which role the focus on the common good plays in #data flows in outpatient care. And how Gaia-X provides solutions for the banality of everyday life.

#cloud #sovereign #opensource #ShareData #DigitalInnovation #DataEcosystem

https://www.gxfs.eu/team-x-and-gaia-x/