Our fleet of ​s is growing as we prepare for our part in the ¹ campaign in 🇦🇹 next month.

We'll provide valuable in-situ , , and measurements with our custom meteorological PARASITE system on multiple copters in parallel across the Inn valley. This data will help with understanding wind shear in mountainous regions and eventually improve
forecasts.

Our PARASITEs carry several atmospheric sensors and we derive the turbulent 3D wind vector from the copter movements. @nobodyinpersonYann Büchau :nixos: suggested to name them like characters 🐛😉. He put a nicely customized ❄️ in there to stay in control of the software, integrate it all and sync data e.g. to a instance ( with support), our own or the one of @fzj_rdm during the VITAL campaign last year.

¹teamx-programme.org/observatio

Screenshot of a README with headlines:

PARASITE: Portable Aircraft Rucksack for Atmospheric Sensing and In-situ Turbulence Estimation

🕷️ Our PARASITEs

Then a table follows, 7 columns (names of copters/devices/PARASITE payloads): Flik 	Hopper 	Thumper 	Manny 	Molt 	Dot 	Gustl

Second row is pictures of the copters/devices

Third row is corresponding pictures of Bug's Life characters.

Fourth row is a description of the setup:

- dji Mavic 3E + PARASITE (T,RH,p,3D-wind) 
- dji Matrice M300 + PARASITE + particles + gases 
- dji Matrice M350 + flik PARASITE system 
- dji Matrice M350 + flik PARASITE system 
- dji Matrice M350 + flik PARASITE system 
- Raspberry Pi 4 without copter for lab testing 
- Raspberry Pi 4 with MaxiMet GMX501 weather station

The pictures of Bug's Life characters are from fandom.com
Raspberry Pi picture from reichelt.com
dji Matrice M350 picture from dji.com
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