Drone delivery depends on block-by-block forecasting - Northwest Herald
Imagine a weather report so precise it provides wind-gust forecasts for individual city blocks. Such micro-weather data soon may become a reality – and a necessity for future fleets of delivery drones.
As Amazon.com, United Parcel Service, Domino’s Pizza and others gear up to launch autonomous drone deliveries of books, pills and pizza, companies are realizing it’s the quality of hyperlocal weather data more than anything else that will steer their packages around storm clouds and through wind-buffeted urban canyons.
Imagine a weather report so precise it provides wind-gust forecasts for individual city blocks. Such micro-weather data soon may become a reality – and a necessity for future fleets of delivery drones.
As Amazon.com, United Parcel Service, Domino’s Pizza and others gear up to launch autonomous drone deliveries of books, pills and pizza, companies are realizing it’s the quality of hyperlocal weather data more than anything else that will steer their packages around storm clouds and through wind-buffeted urban canyons.
