Improving Aviation

The Improving Aviation team, including Roberto Whitley, Dave Zader, and Rocio Frej Vitalle, returned from a productive week at #CIVTAK24, where we engaged with public safety officers, emergency responders, and other innovators in the field of situational awareness technology.   We gathered insights from our end users and explored new ways to enhance our technologies for real-world applications. Here are some highlights:   🔥 Our interactions with firefighters have led to multiple potential collaborations to obtain video imagery and critical local data to support the development of our Wildfire Risk Management and Ember Spread Model. By utilizing computer vision applications to detect objects of interest, we aim to enhance both the speed and accuracy of detections, automate tasks, and reduce the user’s workload, all while maintaining real-time awareness of personnel. This input will refine our use of heat signatures to improve wildfire spread predictions, ensuring firefighters remain safe and are deployed to the most effective areas.   ✈ Public safety officials underscored the need for enhancing resource management. From lower-cost connectivity solutions to track emergency responders in the ground, to effective airspace management that would enable multiple UAS to operate in close proximity with manned aircraft, while ensuring the highest standards of safety and spatial awareness.   A big thank you to all the end users who provided their insights and to the CIVTAK community for fostering innovation. We’re looking forward to continuing the conversation and pushing the boundaries of situational awareness.   #SituationalAwareness #TAKCommunity #WildfireRiskManagement #DroneTechnology #Innovation #PublicSafety

🔥 Exciting News: Vote for Improving Aviation! 🔥   We’re beyond thrilled to announce that Improving Aviation has made it to the FINAL ROUND of @blackambitionprize, founded by none other than @pharrell! 🎉 Out of thousands of applicants, we’re proud to be in the top 40 finalists, competing for up to $1M to take our mission to new heights. 🚀   Our platform, WindTL, is revolutionizing Wildfire Risk Management, helping communities stay safer by delivering real-time, actionable insights when it matters most. 🌍🔥 We’re making a real difference on the ground—and now, we need YOU to help us go further!   🗳️ How you can help: Take just 30 seconds to cast your vote and bring us closer to securing the $25k Public Voting award! Your support helps us push the boundaries of innovation and protect more people and homes from the devastating impact of wildfires.   💌 Let us know when you’ve voted—we’d love to send you a personal thank-you for being part of our journey! 🌍 Global support matters! Friends from Spain, Latin America, and around the world—your votes can make a huge difference! Join us in turning this vision into reality.   🔔 Vote now: https://lnkd.in/eGn94ay2 🔔 ¡Vota ahora!: https://lnkd.in/eGn94ay2 #BlackAmbitionPrize #BAFinalists2024 #VoteForUs #WildfireInnovation #AIforGood #SupportTheMission

Tomorrow, Roberto Whitley, Dave Zader, and Rocio Frej Vitalle Frej will be attending #CIVTAK24. We look forward to connecting with influencers and innovators from the #TAK community, as well as teams actively working in the field.   At Improving Aviation, we specialize in cutting-edge solutions that aggregate real-time data from multiple in situ sources and deliver actionable insights through both web-based and #TAK-integrated interfaces. For public safety, emergency responders, or DoD personnel, our technologies are designed to enhance situational awareness and drive informed actions in high-pressure environments.   Our latest efforts have been geared towards the TAK integration of two of our most cutting edge solutions:   🔥 WindTL is a Wildfire Risk Management and Ember Spread Model predicts, that predicts with up to a 99% accuracy, the areas at risk of ember ignition during an active or future fire. Ask us about how our metrics compare to other models and the results we are achieving! ✈ AirTL, is a our Tactical Situational Awareness Tool; users can not only track assets in real-time, but they can also optimize resources using real-time path planning algorithms, detect and predict the movement of intrusive UAS, and directly command UAS from the TAK interface. Ask us to show it to you during the conference! As always, we are open to connecting and discussing how our technologies can contribute to various operational use cases. We also want to hear from you and find ways to use our technology to improve your operations. If you’re attending the conference, don’t hesitate to reach out and set up a time to meet! In the first image: 🔥 WindTL showcasing wildfire risk prediction. In the second image: ✈ AirTL showing tactical situational awareness.   #CIVTAK2024 #TAKCommunity #SituationalAwareness #Networking

Where do we start?! Back in May of this year, we were told that Google for Startups wanted to collaborate with Improving Aviation on our AI journey to develop the best-in-class Wildfire Risk Management and Ember Ignition Prediction Tool. Since May, we’ve worked with many different Google teams, such as Google Cloud support, AI experts, Customer Engineers, Google Sales Academy, coaches from around the world, and subject matter experts in fields like cybersecurity. We even have the opportunity to work with Google partners such as Goodie Nation, among other amazing opportunities. In short, in just a few months, this support has incredibly accelerated our development and made a tremendous difference for us, both internally and externally. This week, Rocio Frej Vitalle and Maria Tirado headed to New York, where they had the opportunity to participate in the Google for Startups Founders Summit. Three incredible days of thinking big, learning lots, and gaining new perspectives in the long-term evolution of responsible AI, but the best part were the amazing and genuine connections we made with other startups, founders, and Google team members. The support and camaraderie were inspiring and touching. It will be hard to top this experience! More than ever, we truly relate to Mr. Sundai Pichai words: "AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on", and we are fully committed to push the limits of AI to create technologies that enable safer and more efficient operations for those on the ground, from wildfire fighters to defense personnel. A couple of special mentions: it was great to meet in person some of our colleagues from the current cohort, as well as other companies we've had the opportunity to engage with over the last few months, including Benchmark Labs Inc. Sortile HacWare, Hire Henry, JustAir, Sensagrate and Bountiful. Check them out—they’re also pushing the limits of AI! 💥 To the Google team—Danny Navarro Kaili Emmrich Yulkendy Valdez (She-Her) Monica Mora, Hannah and to Joey Womack from Goodie Nation, thank you so much for your hospitality over the last couple of days. Thank you for your time, passion, and caring approach. We look forward to seeing you in person and virtually again soon!

We are celebrating today at Improving Aviation 🎉 We have been selected by Tampa Bay Inno as a Tampa Bay Inno Awards honoree in the AI category! Our product, WindTL is revolutionizing WildFire Risk Management with AI-Driven Insights 🔥 During a wildfire 90% of structures are lost due to #embers. Until today no other model had been able to predict ember ignition and spread. By aggregating high resolution data from multiple sources and using a combination of physical models and machine learning, WindTL predicts, to an unprecedented level of accuracy, the areas at risk of ember ignition during an active or future fire. Firefighting agencies, insurance companies, and public agencies can now deploy resources and develop mitigation strategies using data that has never been available before. Please, reach out if you want to learn more about #WindTL We look forward to attending the awards celebration and thank you to the Tampa Bay Inno Team for this amazing recognition! 💫 #WildfirePrevention #EmberIgnition #DataDrivenDecisions #FireSafety #PredictiveModeling https://lnkd.in/ebPqeFaq

Last week, we had the opportunity to attend Florida Automated Vehicles (FAV) Summit! It was a great two days to engage with industry leaders and explore developments in the field of automated transportation. 🚀 A couple of key takeaways: 🔵 We connected with innovators driving advancements in transportation automation, opening doors for new collaborations. 🔵 Drones are big helpers in emergency response and public safety, but we are still dealing with inefficiencies and safety risks. Improving Aviation brings safety and efficiency to drone operations by providing situational awareness and converting camera feed into actionable information with minimum human intervention. 🔵 Urban air mobility is not a thing of the future anymore, but we need to ensure the sky above vertiports is safe of unwanted activity. Contact us to find our solutions to protect and manage the airspace! #AutomatedVehicles #Innovation #DroneTechnology #UrbanMobility 

✈ Imagine managing airspace activities—manned or unmanned— through your #ATAK app without the need for internet access. At Improving Aviation, our field deployable, hardware-agnostic platform can do this and you can see here it https://lnkd.in/eE5ByTje Key Features: ✅ Situational Awareness: Monitor and manage all airspace activities with real-time data from ADS-B, MavLink, LoRa, and RemoteID datalinks. ✅ Mission Planning: Automatically generate optimized conflict-free routes, define no-fly zones or operating intents, and dynamically deconflict with our cutting-edge algorithms. ✅ Conflict Detection: Stay ahead of potential conflicts by identifying unknown UAS activities and ensuring immediate alerts for non-compliant actions. ✅ Data Integration: Collect and process atmospheric data and imagery from UAS and ground sensors for enhanced situational awareness. ✅ Collaboration Ready: Share critical data with external partners, adaptable to both online and offline environments. Explore how our solution can revolutionize your approach by clicking the video link above! 📺 #AirspaceManagement #UAS #DroneTechnology #Innovation #AviationSafety #ImprovingAviation

The Improving Aviation team is growing once again, and we’re excited to welcome Ping Wu and George Maska aboard as Systems Engineers! 🚀   Ping and George will be key players in our UAS Development efforts, bringing their expertise in systems engineering to help us push the boundaries of technology. They will be developing and integrating cutting-edge UAS platforms, ensuring robust system architecture, and leading technical studies.   Their experience in UAS sensors, flight control systems, and communication protocols will be a great asset as we continue to innovate and advance our deep tech solutions.   Welcome to the team, Ping and George! We’re excited to see the impact you’ll make at Improving Aviation. ✈️ #UASDevelopment #SystemsEngineering

Progress takes many forms, and this one makes us incredibly proud of our journey! Both of these images capture the same drive and enthusiasm for innovation, but the one on the right truly showcases how far we've come in refining our technology. Over the past few years, we've built, tested and iterated our field deployable data collection, aggregation and analysis platform. Using a hardware agnostic approach, our tool connects to sensors and vehicles in the field, captures raw data, and converts it into actionable information for those on the field. We are incredibly thankful to Jack Carr. With his help, we've taken our platform to the next level. As of late 2022, our platform required a full sized trailer. Today, we have a compact, ruggedized, portable platform that can be deployed in minutes. With our new process, the entire toolkit can be built from #COTS systems in the matter of hours. We're excited to see how our tool continues to evolve as we continue working for even greater efficiency and perfection. #Innovation #TechnologyEvolution #DataAnalytics #FieldTechnology #Efficiency #HardwareAgnostic #RuggedTech #PortableSolutions

🎥Intern Spotlight: A Summer of Growth and Innovation   This summer, we had the pleasure of working with some incredible talent here at Improving Aviation. Our interns brought fresh perspectives, innovative ideas, and a passion for making a difference. In this short video, Alice reflects on her journey with us and her favorite projects. Alice Silva has been an amazing asset to the team, she joined her internship with us as a Content and Digital Marketing intern but she was much more than that. Her internship was supposed to last until mid July but we couldn't part ways that early with her, which made us extended her internship for 4 more weeks. She has pushed the team outside of their comfort zones, she has helped us with our company branding and making sure that we have a website (check it out!) that truly represent who we are. She also has learned how to fly drones! We are so grateful to Alice for all her contributions and we wish her the best of luck as she goes back to USF to finish her Bachelors! Especially mention to Embarc Collective as a thanks to them, we were able to find Alice and bring her to the team! Thank you Alice for helping us Break barriers and build resilience this summer! #InternshipExperience #ImprovingAviation #SummerInternship #Innovation #AviationSafety #CareerGrowth #TechInAviation