Airfield operations

Solutions for situational awareness, efficiency and safety of launch & recovery cycle.

Prepare to face adverse weather in your airfield operations

Ensure operational capability in all weather conditions and prepare to face adverse weather in your airfield operations with the right kind of situational awareness, efficiency and safety of launch and recovery cycle.

Excellent reliability and flexibility for different regions makes the Vaisala systems scalable and customizable for any airfield. The solutions also provide situational awareness well beyond the immediate airfield area. Vaisala’s powerful remote sensing systems can be used concurrently also for other types of severe weather detection and safeguarding of runway and ramp operations.

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Products and Systems

Automatic Weather Station AWS310-SITE

Automatic weather station optimized for airport weather observation applications provides accurate, real-time weather information for effective short- and long-term forecasting and monitoring of developing severe weather conditions.

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Lightning Detection

Receive real-time, accurate data about lightning and severe weather for proactive safety and operation decisions.

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X-band Weather Radar WRS400

Highly accurate, real-time measurements for a short-range solution with unparalleled resolution from almost ground level.

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Wind Lidar: Enhanced, Long-range Wind Awareness

Vaisala wind lidar provides accurate, real-time wind awareness for many use cases, improving an airport’s safety, efficiency, and decision-making.

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Forward Scatter Sensor FD70

FD70 is powerful technology that can potentially replace many separate sensors such as your visibility and present weather sensor, rain gauge, disdrometer, and freezing rain sensor. It can also outperform them in delivering highly accurate visibility and precipitation reporting in all weather conditions, as well as unsurpassed detection sensitivity and reliable identification of present weather.

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TacMet Weather Station

See the advantages of cost-effective, quickly deployable, and portable automatic weather stations. The Vaisala TacMet® Tactical Meteorological Observation System is a portable compact weather station for field operations — used in various environments and any weather. Offering broad sensor capability, the portable system can be easily and rapidly deployed.

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AviMet Aviation Weather Management System

This complete aviation weather management system ensures safe and efficient airport operations in all weather by combining assessments of wind, visibility, cloud height, pressure, lightning, windshear, precipitation, runway surface conditions, and more to produce real-time reports and alerts.

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Sounding Systems and Radiosondes

Access precise atmospheric data and high-quality weather observations to accurately forecast high-impact weather even in the harshest conditions. Vaisala’s sounding systems integrate sounding control, data processing, and output in customized formats. Vaisala’s combination of sounding devices and software are used to process, analyze, archive, and relay sounding data — resulting in optimal networking, detection, and monitoring.

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