Detecting and quantifying methane emissions is gaining an increasingly vital role in
mitigating emissions for the oil and gas industry through early detection and repair and will …

Abstract Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) are an emerging technology that is
suitable for multitude of applications requiring small sensor payloads including airborne …

This paper presents a comparison of three model-based algorithms to estimate the wind
vector from quadrotor motion, based on increasingly refined models. The three vehicle …

Wind energy is a kind of renewable and widely distributed energy and has attracted more
and more attention from researchers in both energy harvesting and sensing fields. Here …

Compared to conventional wind field measurement methods such as wind masts or wind
towers, UAV-based measurement is a relatively new approach to making wind field …

In recent years, flooding has become a major problem, encountered in many places all over
the world, causing damage to property ranging from human life to economic losses. Floods …

Concentrations of airborne chemical and biological agents from a hazardous release are not
spread uniformly. Instead, there are regions of higher concentration, in part due to local …

Wind velocity (strength and direction) is an important parameter for unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV)-based environmental monitoring tasks. A novel wind velocity estimation method is …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wind measurement is a newly developed wind
measurement method that can improve the efficiency of conventional wind measurements. A …

It is especially crucial to utilize measured data as samples to increase the accuracy of wind
field prediction. However, scarce wake field measured data of high-rise buildings leads to …