How Windsond Radiosondes Improve Wildfire Firefighter Safety Introduction: Why real‑time in‑plume data matters Wildfires can change their behavior very fast. A sudden wind shift can turn a safe area into a dangerous one and trap crews. Standard weather forecast... Jan 20, 2026
SKS50 5G Signal Sensor Announcement Sparvio introduces the SKS50, a compact 5G signal strength sensor designed for drone-mounted measurement of cellular network performance using an onboard NB-IoT modem. Key benefits Enables fast, flexi... Jan 20, 2026
Recent Study Showcases the Use of Sparv’s Windsond to Promote Firefighter Safety During Wildfires Executive Summary A groundbreaking 2025 study by Castellnou Ribau et al. highlights the critical role of real-time atmospheric data in protecting wildland firefighters during extreme wildfire events. ... Jan 20, 2026
Sparv Sensors Power Largest Hailstorm Study in 40 Years Executive Summary Sparv Embedded’s advanced atmospheric sensors are playing a pivotal role in ICECHIP (In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains), the largest hailstorm... Jan 20, 2026
Sparv Embedded Sensors Being Used in Major International Hail Study Executive Summary Sparv Embedded is contributing advanced sensor technology to ICECHIP (In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains), the most extensive hailstorm resear... Jan 20, 2026
Windsond Radiosonde Data Enhances Convective Boundary Layer Analysis Executive Summary In late 2024, a research team at Penn State demonstrated a groundbreaking approach to studying the convective boundary layer (CBL) using dual-polarization weather radar combined with... Jan 20, 2026
Windsond Data Featured in Recent Atmospheric Study A research group from the Department of Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) recently published a paper (Stouffer et al., 2024) on the use of Dual-Polarization Weather Radar t... Jan 20, 2026
Introducing Sparv Embedded’s SKH3 Sensor Logger: Robust, User-Friendly Data Collection for Drones Executive Summary The Sparv Embedded SKH3 is our second-generation airborne data logger, born from years of on-board drone integration and field experience since the 2016 SKH1 launch. At just 90 × 47 ... Jan 20, 2026
Sparv Embedded in IMPACT-24: Balloon-Launched Weather Sondes & Drone Sensors Executive Summary During the IMPACT-24 field campaign in Pallas, northern Finland, Sparv Embedded partnered with the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization to deploy a suite of lightw... Jan 20, 2026
Drone-Based Methane Emission Monitoring with UAVs Executive Summary Mapping methane emissions over large areas is crucial for effective climate action, as methane is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year span. Traditional flux chamb... Jan 20, 2026
Observing Tornadoes Using Radiosondes: Windsond Storm Profiling System Executive Summary Accurate tornado forecasting and research depend on both wind and thermodynamic data inside supercell thunderstorms, where Doppler radar alone falls short. Radiosondes—balloon-borne ... Jan 20, 2026
Hailsonde in Operation: Novel Probes Capture Hail Growth Inside Storms Executive Summary Hailsonde is a collaboration between the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and Sparv Embedded that deploys hailstone-shaped sensor probes to measure how hailstones form and grow insid... Jan 20, 2026