Today, most of the UK and Northern Europe woke up to the news that an Icelandic Volcano had errupted causing a plume of volcanic ash to rise to 55,000ft high: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm.
Timely, decisive airspace information.
Whilst it won't affect air qualty on the ground, at that height, it can affect aircraft engines. Nats ( the UK Air Traffic Control Service) and Eurocontrol (the European air safety body) have worked to close down UK airspace causing many flghts to be delayed or cancelled for much of the day. The Met Office are serving specific weather updates to help with predictions on how the weather systems will carry the smoke plumes and which areas might be affected.
Here at Snowflake, we're pretty excited about this.
We're currently involved in the development of the next generation of air traffic control systems through the OGC's OWS-7 testbed where our GO Publisher product is being used to send notifications about flight path obstructions including volcanic ash plumes and extreme weather. GO Publisher serves data to allow air traffic controllers, airlines and pilots to make rapid and well informed decisions about diversions and alternative flight plans.
Aviation Conference
What's more, we'll be unveiling the findings at an international Aviation Conference - The AIXM/WXXM event in Washington on 4-6 May - http://www.aixm.aero/public/standard_page/2010_05_aixm_met.html.
Come and see us at the exhibition.
Aviation expertise
We've been working in the Aviation industry to provide specific solutions for many data exchange and interoperability challenges. Read more about it on our Aviation webpages: http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/markets/aviation/index.htm
Take a look and get yours today
- Read more about the work we did on the OGC OWS-6 Testbed: http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/markets/aviation/solution.htm
- Find out about our work in the Aviation arena: http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/markets/aviation/index.htm
- Trial and download the core engine behind the sucess - GO Publisher: http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/products/gopublisher/eval.htm
- Keep up to date with the Twitter #ashtag
Melissa Burns | Marketing Manager | www.twitter.com/sflakesoftware
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