Stratomaps' geo-awareness service provides drone operators with up-to-date information on ground hazards, air restrictions, and prohibitions related to the drone's location and altitude. This service is essential for maintaining compliance and safety during both Visual Line Of Sight (VLOS) and Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) operations.
The geo-awareness service is accessible via REST APIs, making it easy to integrate into the customer's backend systems or applications. This service, which can be accessed both during mission planning and in real time during flight execution, is ideal for U-space Service Providers (USSP), UTM Service Providers (USP), drone application developers, and drone manufacturers who require reliable and up-to-date geospatial information.
Further details are provided below.
The geo-awareness API encompasses five API endpoints, respectively:
Search by Location: Retrieves data based on a specific point location.
Search by Radius: Retrieves data within a specified radius from a central point.
Search by Bounding Box: Retrieves data in an area using a rectangular boundary.
Search by Polygon: Retrieves data within custom-shaped area definitions.
Search by Corridor: Ideal to retrieve data within long linear paths, such as roads or pipelines.
The location of the planned drone mission should be provided in the request. Additional parameters, such as altitude, can also be included in the request and specified in either MSL (Mean Sea Level) or AGL (Above Ground Level) terms. Each search returns one or more JSON objects representing an area defined by a bounding box on the ground. These objects contain all relevant information for that specific area, including prohibited zones, restricted zones, maximum authorised flight altitude, potential warnings, converted altitude, and type of restriction.
More technical details available on the developers zone.
The geo-awareness API is provided as a Supplemental Data Service. However, it is not a substitute for obtaining flight authorization from relevant regulatory authorities.
