ARIA: Air Pollutants Monitoring Using UAVs

Bolla, Gian Marco; Casagrande, Marco; Comazzetto, Antonio; Moro, Riccardo Dal; Destro, Matteo; Fantin, Edoardo; Colombatti, Giacomo; Aboudan, A.; Lorenzini, Enrico

doi:10.1109/metroaerospace.2018.8453584

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“…The use of drones in the field of environmental monitoring, such as for the monitoring of wide areas, such as landfill and critical infrastructures, is a topic of great interest in different fields [2,6,28,[38][39][40][41].…”

Section: Environmental Monitoring Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A very small number of applications have been conducted previously with the integration of these sensors with UAS, most of them dedicated to investigating combustion products [6,48] or particulate matter [7]. Regarding industrial pollutants, the use has been reported of electrochemical sensors [8], which are less sensitive than PID to VOC.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Different approaches have been compared for gas release localization with mobile platforms, and gas sensing systems have been developed and tested specifically for Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOC) [2] and Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs) [3] localization and mapping. Numerous other applications have demonstrated the drones' suitability to be equipped with gas sensors for environmental monitoring and surveillance operations [4,5], [6][7][8][9][10][11] and also for radiation monitoring after a nuclear disaster [12][13][14]. Hence, this study aimed at evaluating a drone sensor platform to increase first responders' safety during early survey missions and improve monitoring activities in critical contexts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These detectors are widely used in many different scenarios, such as leaks from industrial equipment, perimeter monitoring of industrial buildings, or warehouses if the nature of spill is known, delineation of contaminated areas after a release, technical investigations after a fire.Thanks to their sensitivity and fast response, these instruments are highly useful both for first responder[46] and CWA applications[47].PID detectors are capable of measuring the concentration of a known gas dispersed in the atmosphere, but they have no identification capability. In fact, they can be used to give meaningful quantitative information, but they must be coupled with an instrument capable of substance identification (qualitative assessment).A very small number of applications have been conducted previously with the integration of these sensors with UAS, most of them dedicated to investigating combustion products[6, 48] or particulate matter[7]. Regarding industrial pollutants, the use has been reported of electrochemical sensors[8], which are less sensitive than PID to VOC.…”

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Design of Miniaturized Sensors for a Mission-Oriented UAV Application: A New Pathway for Early Warning

Giovanni¹,

Fumian²,

Chierici³

et al. 2021

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In recent decades, the increasing threats associated with Chemical and Radiological (CR) agents prompted the development of new tools to detect and collect samples without putting in danger first responders inside contaminated areas. A particularly promising branch of these technological developments relates to the integration of different detectors and sampling systems with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The adoption of this equipment may bring significant benefits for both military and civilian implementations. For instance, instrumented UAVs could be used in support of specialist military teams such as Sampling and Identification of Biological, Chemical and Radiological Agents (SIBCRA) team, tasked to perform sampling in contaminated areas, detecting the presence of CR substances in field and then confirming, collecting and evaluating the effective threats. Furthermore, instrumented UAVs may find dual-use application in the civil world in support of emergency teams during industrial accidents and in the monitoring activities of critical infrastructures. Small size drones equipped with different instruments for detection and collection of samples may enable, indeed, several applications, becoming a tool versatile and easy to use in different fields, and even featuring equipment normally utilized in manual operation. The authors hereby present the design of miniaturized sensors for a mission-oriented UAV application and the preliminary results from an experimental campaign performed in 2020.

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Design of Miniaturized Sensors for a Mission-Oriented UAV Application: A New Pathway for Early Warning

Giovanni¹,

Fumian²,

Chierici³

et al. 2021

IJSSE

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“…Smidl and Hofman (2013) published one of the first papers to discuss using UAVs to measure gas concentrations, though the discussion was purely theoretical. Since then, four more papers were found discussing theoretical applications of UAV-mounted gas monitors ( Alvear et al, 2017 ; 2018 ; Bolla et al, 2018 ; Nash, 2017 ), and six papers were found to actually attempt data collection ( Aboubakr et al, 2017 ; Ali et al, 2017 ; Barchyn et al, 2018 ; Chang et al, 2016 , 2018 ; Liu et al, 2018 ). However, none of these papers discussed the potential measurement errors inherent with using such a system.…”

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Post-movement stabilization time for the downwash region of a 6-rotor UAV for remote gas monitoring

Brinkman

Davis

Johnson

2020

Heliyon

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been used to monitor gas emissions for research projects, though downwash, the airflow produced by the UAV rotors, is potentially capable of artificially altering gas concentration measurements. Anemometers, placed at ten different distances below a 6-rotor UAV, measured air speeds in the downwash region. The collected data was used in combination with UAV rotor speed data to determine the stabilization time of the downwash region after the UAV has returned to a stable hovering position. The stabilization time will determine the amount of time after UAV movement until reliable concentration readings can be obtained within the downwash region. This paper presents stabilization times after vertical upward and rotational UAV movement.

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