Bucchignani, E. Methodologies for Wind Field Reconstruction in the U-SPACE: A Review. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 1684, doi:10.3390/atmos14111684.
Bucchignani, E. Methodologies for Wind Field Reconstruction in the U-SPACE: A Review. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 1684, doi:10.3390/atmos14111684.
Bucchignani, E. Methodologies for Wind Field Reconstruction in the U-SPACE: A Review. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 1684, doi:10.3390/atmos14111684.
Bucchignani, E. Methodologies for Wind Field Reconstruction in the U-SPACE: A Review. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 1684, doi:10.3390/atmos14111684.
Abstract
In the present work, the main methodologies used to reconstruct wind fields in the U-SPACE have been analyzed. The SESAR U-SPACE program aims to develop an Unmanned Traffic Management system with a progressive introduction of procedures and services designed to support a secure access to the air space for a large number of drones. The Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA) is carrying out the EDUS project focused on the development and validation of operating platform demonstrators serving the micro-scale weather forecasts and the collection of information necessary for the definition of the flight plan of the drones in urban contexts. For this reason, the state of art methodologies that can be used to estimate winds at low altitudes in urban areas starting from available observational data have been reviewed in the present paper. Some of these techniques were originally developed for reconstruction at high altitudes, but successively adapted to treat different heights. A common approach to all techniques is to approximate the probabilistic distribution of wind speed over time with some parametric models, apply spatial interpolation to the parameters and then read the predicted value.
Keywords
U_SPACE; drone flight; wind field reconstruction
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
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