What is Skye UTM?

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About Skye UTM:

What is it? It is a Cloud-based aerial traffic management system that integrates unmanned air traffic with manned aviation airspace.
Purpose: It has been built towards providing situational awareness, autonomous navigation, risk assessment, and traffic management to all drone/other aerial mobility operators across the airspace.
Operation:
It captures more than 255+ parameters of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) movements and stores them into its ‘Blackbox,’ a published systematic description of the entire flight.
The platform offers the first 3-Dimensional view of the drone airspace along with operations and regulations mapping servers which provide the latest airspace status, verified paths and display real-time UAV movements.
It connects and communicates with all types of drones, from survey drones to delivery drones to aerial taxis.
It can handle more than 4000 flights per hour.
The platform offers regulatory access to Air Traffic Controllers and other regulatory authorities, allowing them to have real-time drone traffic movement information, pilot information, and other necessary data for evaluation and coordination.

Q1) What is a drone?

A drone refers to any aerial vehicle that receives remote commands from a pilot or relies on software for autonomous flight. Many drones display features like cameras for collecting visual data and propellers for stabilizing their flight patterns.

Source: Gadkari unveils advanced drone air traffic management system ‘Skye UTM’