Successful air travel operations require constant awareness of fleet positions and an overall understanding of weather's impact on flight operations, which in turn requires up-to-date weather information on current conditions and accurate forecasting of significant weather events.
The IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite helps airlines improve operations with on-ground, pre-flight and enroute weather data, tracking and decision support, backed by over 40 years of aviation weather forecasting expertise.
The IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite brings together global weather data, aviation weather forecasts, weather reports, airspace programs and enroute flight tracking into a unified view with powerful and configurable alerting, to help streamline dispatcher workflows.
The IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite solution alerts the pilot and flight crew to potential weather hazards such as thunderstorms, precipitation, dew point. Flight services include airspace notifications along the flight path, enabling situational awareness and better decision-making from takeoff through landing.
Probabilistic aviation weather forecasting with a 7-day risk outlook allows the flight team to track current and future weather conditions and respond to possible disruption events, improving business continuity and operations safety.
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