Environmental Monitoring via Drone

3rd international workshop MIGRATE, 2019

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, 2020

In the context of digital governance, manmade activities will have the most impact on the environment. The concept of internet of things (IoT) is much more profound, supposedly having an impact on the way environmental sampling of data takes place. The cost benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as alternate to satellite or high-altitude platform system (HAPS) is established as these are more flexible, mission specific, and versatile. UAV in sensor network context and communication relaying as well as data harvesting application is explored. Proposal to upgrade environmental laws and implementing network infrastructure security and cyber insurance for HetNets involving UAVs and environmental monitoring will be covered as well.

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an emerging technology being adapted for a wide range of applications. Real-time monitoring is essential to enhance the effectiveness of UAV applications. Sensor networks are networks constructed from various sensor nodes. International standard such as OGC's SOS (Sensor Observation Service) makes it possible to share sensor data with other systems as well as to provide accessibility to globally distributed users. In this paper, we propose a system combining UAV technology and sensor network technology to use an UAV as a mobile node of sensor network so that the sensor data from UAV is published and shared real-time. A UAV can extend the observation range of a sensor network to remote areas where it is usually difficult to access such as disaster area. We constructed a UAV system using remote-controlled helicopter and various sensors such as GPS, gyrocompass, laser range finder, Digital camera and Thermometer. Furthermore, we extended the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and Sensor Service Grid (SSG) to support mobile sensor nodes. Then, we conducted experiments of flying the helicopter over an area of the interest. During the flight, the system measured environmental data using its sensors and captured images of the ground. The data was sent to a SOS node as the ground station via Wi-Fi which was published using SSG to give realtime access to globally distributed users.

In environmental monitoring, human presence is necessary in order to monitor, record and control the evolution of environmental parameters, but, at the same time, is to be avoided, because it is a disturbing and possibly intrusive element. A solution to this challenging dilemma is to use autonomous or remote controlled mobile sensors, which, in its turn, leads to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), similar to those already developed and used in the military field. UAVs have unmatched qualities that make them the only effective solution in specialised tasks where human presence either is not necessary, or is not allowed. Although the civil applications of the UAVs were developed later than military ones, there is already a wide range of civil UAVs. Nowadays, they are used in scientific, emergency, governmental or commercial missions. The environmental monitoring missions are already performed by some UAVs meant for scientific or emergency missions. This work presents some cur...

Air quality monitoring of any specific location is important for continuous improvement of air quality and protecting public health. We demonstrate the design and development of an autonomous copter-type air quality monitoring drone to measure the amount of CO2 and CO present in the ambient air of any desired trajectory. We also measured the temperature, pressure, and humidity of the surrounding air. The proposed low cost drone is small in size, light weight, easy to maintain, and capable of flying a long distance. In addition to autonomous control, the proposed drone can be manually controlled using a long-range remote controller. The maximum altitude of the drone from the ground control station is approximately 500 m, whereas the maximum velocity is 50 km/hour. During air quality monitoring, we collected the air quality data from 1 feet to 200 feet with 20 feet interval where the average velocity of the drone was 5.4 km/hour. We selected three different locations for data collection. Afterwards, we analyzed the collected data and determined the primary causes of variation in the CO2 and CO concentration of various locations under different altitudes. We strongly believe that, the proposed drone will be useful for collecting location specific air quality information and taking necessary actions to reduce air pollution.

19th International Congress of Metrology (CIM2019), 2019

Emergence of autonomous robotics and vehicles thanks to sensors, embedded processors and communication progress open new horizon for making remote sensing measurement without exposing human to unecessary risks. The collection of regular data in various environement (outdoor or indoor) allow more efficient predictive and preventive maintenance of assets that are difficult to access. Autonomous vehicle operating on ground, in the air or on water can shape a new future for science, industry and environnement. The optical and photonic industries offer now a wide range of compact sensor solutions using different wavelength not only to permit autoguidance of vehicles but also to complete the range of sensor already used for gathering various physical values with the advantage of non-contact. The application are numerous and encompass amongst other thermography, gas detection, hyperspectral imaging, security which can be extremely helpful for carrying day to day tasks for first responder, EHS officers, governmental regulatory organization, scientists…Routine checks can be thus envisaged that will save money by preventing or lessening risks or failure, better protecting environment and people, capitalizing on larger databases making use of AI. INNOVIDEA through its diverse industrial innovative partners will illustrate several example of use with drone (UAV/UAS/RPAS)

IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA)

This work developed a cost-effective framework for agriculturists to regularly monitor their crops against intruding rodents and other security concerns using modern drone technology through configuration and deployment of an autonomous UAV which also functions as a remotely piloted vehicle. This was done by configuring a quadcopter capable of causing a disturbance when a rodent is observed through an inbuilt alarm system whose sound is amplified to be loud enough to cause the animals to leave the farm area. A framework for real-time image and live video transmission from the farm to a designated remote base station was developed. This was achieved through programming codes that configured the drone to operate an intelligent alarm and object tracking systems which enables a live feed from the UAV using Arduino IDE and Mission Planner for autonomous flight control. The requisite algorithms were developed using the framework of tracking, learning and detection (TLD) in the OpenCV soft...

2020

The project aim is the improvement of city management efficiency based on development of decision-making support systems according to the results of monitoring and analysis of urban environment parameters. In order to achieve the research aim will be developed technologies and methods for collecting, accumulation and presentation of urban environment parameters. Developed concept of visualization and methods for analysis of parameter’s dynamics from drones sensors.

IRJET, 2020

Drone technology now been an research topic till now. The reason behind this is only Due to advantages at an effective cost in a seemingly wide range of operations. The measurement as well as monitoring of pollutants in air, in a certain locality at different altitudes with the help of drones and access the quality of air in real-time and get data and keeping the corresponding data updated. Drones are generally utilized in public as well as private sectors. Their applications, comes with a price as well as some disadvantages. Many proposals have been made to try and improve drones but they have been widely reliant on the actual and current cases. Drones can greatly limit the gap in the Wireless Sensor Network, due to their ability to fly at various heights. Drones can be a prolific research topic, there has been no interest in investigation of the advantages of deployment of this technology. It has been studied and observed that air pollutants in air change abruptly even at a comparatively short distance. The aim to provide a new tool to study and monitor air quality at different altitudes that even affluent people cannot afford. Looking at the current scenario, the project will be of low-cost drones and sensors. Generating reports daily as well as on a periodic basis and generate real-time notifications during high level of air pollution. To Understand the tough challenges related to drones and air pollution monitoring.

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2019

UAV technology has been an open research topic for many years. This is because of their potential huge benefits at an affordable cost in a wide range of tasks. UAV are commonly used in public and private places, yet also with few serious limitations. In this paper, we are going to design a drone that monitors the road traffic system as well as measures the pollution level emitted by the vehicle into the air. Most of the traffic monitoring systems based on UAV use a fixed trajectory to extract information about the vehicles, but we monitor the vehicle using the IP camera. During peak hours, the level of pollution will be higher so with the help of the drone we can measure the pollution level and take the required precautions.