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Use cases · UAV, robots & autonomy

Weather data for machines that make their own decisions.

Drones, field robots and autonomous vehicles need the weather where they operate, at the height they fly, delivered straight into their planning software.

A drone and autonomous fleet screen: drone corridors from a Maitland hub coloured go, marginal and no-go by gusts at 120 m, an autonomous shuttle route slowed by coastal fog, a route-by-hour go / no-go grid, a gust chart against a 25 kt limit and an API response for fleet software.
wind and gusts at altitude
120 m
wind and gusts at altitude
nowcast updates
5 min
nowcast updates
API response
< 100 ms
API response

UAV, robots & autonomy

How teams use it.

Wind at flight altitude

Wind and gusts from the ground to 120 m and above, along each corridor, against each airframe’s limits.

Go or no-go by route

Every route segment and time slot scored against wind, rain, visibility and icing, so missions can be planned or held automatically.

Built for software

A low-latency API and webhooks that fleet, mission planning and autonomy stacks can query on every plan.

From one drone to the whole fleet.

Draw corridors, delivery zones and test sites, set limits per platform, and let your software ask the API before every mission.

  • Wind, gusts and turbulence by altitude
  • Rain, fog and low cloud for sensors and cameras
  • Route segments scored per vehicle type
  • Ground conditions for field robots and AVs
  • Historical weather for incident review

Features used

A wind gust map across five construction sites near Newcastle and Maitland, with one site over its crane limit, a site status list and wind speed by height at that site.

Questions.

How high do your wind forecasts go?
Placeholder: from 2 m to 120 m as standard, with higher levels for larger platforms on request.
Can our autonomy stack query the API directly?
Yes. The API is built for machine use, with point, route and area queries and webhooks for changes.
Can we use it for flight approvals?
Placeholder: Flowershift helps you plan and record conditions. It doesn’t replace official aviation weather where your approvals require it.

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