Environmental chemical sensing using small drones: A review

J Burgués, S Marco - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent advances in miniaturization of chemical instrumentation and in low-cost small
drones are catalyzing exponential growth in the use of such platforms for environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Drone-assisted monitoring of atmospheric pollution—A comprehensive review

J Jońca, M Pawnuk, Y Bezyk, A Arsen, I Sówka - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ambient air quality is a complex issue that depends on multiple interacting factors related to
emissions coming from energy production and use, transportation, industrial processes …

[HTML][HTML] Low-cost UAV for high-resolution and large-scale coastal dune change monitoring using photogrammetry

Q Laporte-Fauret, V Marieu, B Castelle… - Journal of Marine …, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, coastal dune data are collected at Truc Vert, SW France, using
photogrammetry via Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). A low-cost GoPro-equipped DJI …

[HTML][HTML] Smelling nano aerial vehicle for gas source localization and mapping

J Burgués, V Hernández, AJ Lilienthal, S Marco - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the development and validation of the currently smallest aerial platform
with olfaction capabilities. The developed Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle (SNAV) is based on …

Low-cost UAV applications in dynamic tropical volcanic landforms

S Granados-Bolaños, A Quesada-Román… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent and growing development and availability of unmanned aerial vehicles/systems
(UAV, UAS, or “drones”) in volcanology has promoted a significant advance in volcanic …

[HTML][HTML] Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a tool for hazard assessment: The 2021 eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma Island (Spain)

A Román, A Tovar-Sánchez, D Roque-Atienza… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Monitoring for assessment of natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, presents a
methodological challenge for the scientific community. Here, we present Unmanned Aerial …

Volcanological applications of unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS): Developments, strategies, and future challenges

MR James, B Carr, F D'Arcy, A Diefenbach, H Dietterich… - Volcanica, 2020 - jvolcanica.org
Unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) are developing into fundamental tools for tackling the
grand challenges in volcanology; here, we review the systems used and their diverse …

Vertical profiling of black carbon and ozone using a multicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in urban Shenzhen of South China

C Wu, B Liu, D Wu, H Yang, X Mao, J Tan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Existing studies on vertical profiling of black carbon (BC) and ozone (O 3) were mainly
conducted in the rural areas, leading to limited knowledge of their vertical distributions in the …

Quantifying gas emissions associated with the 2018 rift eruption of Kīlauea Volcano using ground-based DOAS measurements

C Kern, AH Lerner, T Elias, PA Nadeau, L Holland… - Bulletin of …, 2020 - Springer
Starting on 3 May 2018, a series of eruptive fissures opened in Kīlauea Volcano's lower East
Rift Zone (LERZ). Over the course of the next 3 months, intense degassing accompanied …

Geoscientists in the sky: Unmanned aerial vehicles responding to geohazards

R Antoine, T Lopez, M Tanguy, C Lissak, L Gailler… - Surveys in …, 2020 - Springer
This article presents a review of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the context
of geohazards. The pluri-disciplinary role of UAVs is outlined in numerous studies …