Classify the Sky – Introducing Drone Classification within AirHub® Portal

The Problem: From Detection to Decision

Modern drone detection sensor networks can pick up every aircraft in the sky, but raw detection only solves part of the problem. When your team sees ten drones on the screen, the urgent question is not “what’s flying?” but “which of these matters?” Without a way to capture and share what individual users already know, every detected drone demands the same level of attention, and real threats get lost in the noise.

The Solution: Drone Classification in AirHub^® Portal

We are introducing Drone Classification within AirHub^® Portal: a workflow for your team to classify each detected drone as Trusted, Neutral, or Blacklisted, capture the reasoning behind each decision, and share that knowledge across the platform. The whole team sees the new color on the map and list view the moment you save.

Every classification recorded: who, when, and why.

Capturing What Your Team Knows

Most of the judgment that goes into airspace awareness lives in individuals’ heads. A drone is trusted because someone recognizes it as their utility’s inspection asset. A drone is blacklisted because it has been seen drifting into a no-fly perimeter twice this month. That kind of context usually never makes it out of memory, a private chat thread, or a one-off email.

Classification puts that knowledge into the platform. Every classification requires a short reasoning note before it can be saved. Every save is timestamped, attributed to the user who made the decision, and visible in a Classification History log to anyone with access to the drone. The team builds a shared record that compounds over time.

The full workflow: select a drone, classify it, watch the map and list change color.

How it Works

Classification sits directly on the drone detail panel in the Drones tab within Operate. There are two paths:

• Add to Fleet: register the drone as a known aircraft within your organization, capturing make, model, owner, tags, and serial number. The detected Remote ID is prepopulated to make adding organizational drones easier. Fleet aircraft are automatically treated as trusted.
• Classify External: assign a Trusted, Neutral, or Blacklisted classification to a third-party drone with a required reasoning note. Every classification saves to a Classification History log with the user, timestamp, and reasoning preserved.

Key Features

• Color-coded knowledge at a glance: the map and list view update with every classification, so the team can identify what’s flying and escalate threats fast.
• Reasoning required: every external classification needs a short note before it can be saved, capturing the logic at the moment of the decision.
• Shared across the team: classifications and their history are visible to every user with access to the drone detection, so situational awareness builds over time and across people.
• Full audit history: every classification and reclassification is recorded so after-action reviews have a clear record of how a decision was made.

Who Should Use This?

Event security teams, critical infrastructure operators, and public safety agencies will see the most immediate value, but the workflow scales to any team that wants to move from “what’s flying?” to “what do I do about it?”

Get Started

Drone Classification is now available to all AirHub® Portal Advanced customers with a drone detection sensors integration. Open the Drones tab in your Operate view, select a detected aircraft, and click Change Classification to try it.

Not yet a customer? Schedule a personalized demo to see Drone Classification in action and explore how AirHub^® Portal Advanced can support your airspace operations.