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by vivzkestrel 720 days ago
how exactly are you using an accelerometer to determine turbulence
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By analyzing the acceleration patterns that the iPad the pilot has in the cockpit which is securely attached to the aircraft is measuring. Cleaning out noise such as engine and other non CAT noise and training our model to identify these and also predict future events in the next 3 hours by looking at the current data. It takes millions of events and lots of pilots which help train the initial model and fine tune it.
How else would you detect it? Accelerometers seem perfect for this use case.