Overview of the Nordic Challenges for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The Nordic countries have an intermediate climate with actual four seasons. The weather here varies from summer hot to winter, freezing with rain and snow and all the water elements between them. In this paper, we will investigate the Nordic challenges for Unmanned Aircraft System operations. We have classified them into technological and operational categories. In a recent white paper, MIT Lincoln Laboratory concluded that drone pilots needed to account for ten weather parameters to ensure a successful flight of their uAS. We see, based on our long-term experience and extensive literature review, that these parameters need to be understood what is their meaning on the technological and operational level. We push these learnings on our DroneMaster project to bring education for professional UAS operators.