UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AIRSPACE RESERVATION AND ALLOCATION SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A flight planning system comprising one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors configured to perform the operations of:
- receiving weather event data from an event service, the weather event data describing a weather event for a geospatial region, the weather event data including an event description, geospatial information, and time information;
analyzing the weather event data to determine property damage may be caused by the weather event for a particular geospatial area;
automatically generating a flight plan for inspection of one or more structures located in the particular geospatial area, the flight plan including one or more waypoints defining a planned flight for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect the one or more structures for damage caused by the weather event; and
generating a flight data package for transmission to a ground control station or to the UAV, the flight data package comprising the flight plan.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reserving airspace for UAV operations. In some implementations, a flight planning system can reserve and allocate airspace for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. For example, a UAV operator device can submit a flight plan to the flight planning system. The flight planning system can submit a flight authorization request to an airspace management system to reserve airspace necessary for the flight plan. The flight planning system can receive approval and/or a reservation of the airspace for the flight plan from the airspace management system, generate a flight data package, and send the flight data package to the operator'"'"'s device.
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28 Claims
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1. A flight planning system comprising one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors configured to perform the operations of:
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receiving weather event data from an event service, the weather event data describing a weather event for a geospatial region, the weather event data including an event description, geospatial information, and time information; analyzing the weather event data to determine property damage may be caused by the weather event for a particular geospatial area; automatically generating a flight plan for inspection of one or more structures located in the particular geospatial area, the flight plan including one or more waypoints defining a planned flight for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect the one or more structures for damage caused by the weather event; and generating a flight data package for transmission to a ground control station or to the UAV, the flight data package comprising the flight plan. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method performed by one or more processors comprising the operations of:
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receiving weather event data from an event service, the weather event data describing a weather event for a geospatial region, the weather event data including geospatial and time information; analyzing the weather event data to determine possible property damage would be caused by the weather event for a particular geospatial area; automatically generating a flight plan for inspection of one or more structures located in the particular geospatial area, the flight plan including one or more waypoints defining a planned flight for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect the one or more structures for damage caused by the weather event; and generating a flight data package for transmission to a ground control station or to the UAV, the flight data package comprising the flight plan. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method performed by one or more processors comprising the operations of:
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receiving weather event data from an event service, the weather event data describing a weather event for a geospatial region, the weather event data including geospatial and time information; analyzing the weather event data to determine possible property damage would be caused by the weather event for a particular geospatial area; automatically generating a flight plan for inspection of one or more structures located in the particular geospatial area, the flight plan including one or more waypoints defining a planned flight for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect the one or more structures for damage caused by the weather event; and generating a flight data package for transmission to a ground control station or to the UAV, the flight data package comprising the flight plan. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight planning system comprising one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors configured to perform the operations of:
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receiving event data from an event service; determining, based on the event data, a particular geographic area for which to reserve airspace in anticipation of UAV flight operations about the particular geographic area; generating one or more airspace reservation requests for the particular geographic area; transmitting the one or more airspace reservation requests to an approval system to reserve airspace corresponding to the particular geographic area; receiving approval from the approval system for reservation of the airspace; and determining one or more flight plans for a UAV, wherein the flight plan includes one or more waypoints in the reserved airspace. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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