Case Study: Skyward achieves faster, more granular airspace visualization and operational control with Mapbox

Skyward - Customer Case Study

Skyward.io provides software, services, training, and connectivity to help organizations manage drone programs. They needed to ingest FAA LAANC data and display airport facility maps as fine-grained grids with maximum allowable altitudes, but their previous tool could only render two colors and lacked the automation and styling flexibility required to visualize this complex, frequently updated data.

By adopting Mapbox Studio with MTS and Recipe, Skyward automated their data pipeline, sped up processing, and gained granular styling and data-combination capabilities. The result is a single, flexible tileset that accurately visualizes LAANC grids with better performance and control, enabling clearer operational decision-making for pilots.

Skyward

Shane Williams

Senior Product & Airspace Analyst