LAMINAR DATA PRIVATE CLOUD
The Laminar Data Private Cloud is a highly-customisable solution for data exchange and management. Building on our award-winning technology, the Private Cloud deployment of our Laminar Data Platform enables organisations to unlock, centralise, enhance, fuse and distribute proprietary sources of Aviation data

CUSTOMISED DATA MANAGEMENT, MADE EASY
PRIVATE CLOUD – AN INDUSTRY USE CASE

As a result of climate change severe clear air turbulence encounters are projected to increase by up to 140%. Clear-air turbulence is difficult to avoid as it cannot be detected by aircraft radar systems but it can be sensed by on-board sensors when an aircraft flies through these invisible “air pockets”. These sensor readings are passed through algorithms which compute the intensity of turbulence and transmit their values to ground-based servers. A number of airlines already gather this information and use it in their own flight dispatch systems, however, until today, there has been no way for airlines to share this information with each other.
IATA selected Snowflake Software to build, host and manage the cloud-based Turbulence Aware data management platform using Snowflake’s award-winning and proven Laminar Data platform. Snowflake Software is deploying and will manage a secure Laminar Data Private Cloud that will receive, anonymize, process, store, and distribute turbulence data from each participating airline’s fleet of aircraft in real-time. This turbulence data will be made easily accessible to airline flight dispatch systems and pilot applications via simple to consume APIs or a browser-based turbulence viewer. In addition, the Laminar Data platform will serve as an archive of turbulence data for post-flight analyses, academic research and refinement of turbulence forecast models.
PRIVATE CLOUD – AN INDUSTRY USE CASE

As a result of climate change severe clear air turbulence encounters are projected to increase by up to 140%. Clear-air turbulence is difficult to avoid as it cannot be detected by aircraft radar systems but it can be sensed by on-board sensors when an aircraft flies through these invisible “air pockets”. These sensor readings are passed through algorithms which compute the intensity of turbulence and transmit their values to ground-based servers. A number of airlines already gather this information and use it in their own flight dispatch systems, however, until today, there has been no way for airlines to share this information with each other.
IATA selected Snowflake Software to build, host and manage the cloud-based Turbulence Aware data management platform using Snowflake’s award-winning and proven Laminar Data platform. Snowflake Software is deploying and will manage a secure Laminar Data Private Cloud that will receive, anonymize, process, store, and distribute turbulence data from each participating airline’s fleet of aircraft in real-time. This turbulence data will be made easily accessible to airline flight dispatch systems and pilot applications via simple to consume APIs or a browser-based turbulence viewer. In addition, the Laminar Data platform will serve as an archive of turbulence data for post-flight analyses, academic research and refinement of turbulence forecast models.