Drone technology in municipal solid waste management and landfilling: A comprehensive review

N Sliusar, T Filkin, M Huber-Humer, M Ritzkowski - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper discusses the experience of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the
management of municipal solid waste landfills and dumpsites. Although the use of drones at …

Scaling up resource recovery of plastics in the emergent circular economy to prevent plastic pollution: Assessment of risks to health and safety in the Global South

E Cook, CA Velis, JW Cottom - Waste Management & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the coming decades, a large additional mass of plastic waste will become available for
recycling, as efforts increase to reduce plastic pollution and facilitate a circular economy …

Methods for quantifying methane emissions using unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

JT Shaw, A Shah, H Yong… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Methane is an important greenhouse gas, emissions of which have vital consequences for
global climate change. Understanding and quantifying the sources (and sinks) of …

[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse gases emissions of constructed wetlands: mechanisms and affecting factors

X Yin, C Jiang, S Xu, X Yu, X Yin, J Wang, M Maihaiti… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Constructed wetlands (CWs) widely applied for wastewater treatment release significant
greenhouse gases (GHGs), contributing to global warming. It is essential to characterize the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of methane emissions from a California landfill using concurrent experimental, inventory, and modeling approaches

N Yeşiller, JL Hanson, DC Manheim, S Newman… - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Methane flux and emissions were obtained at a California landfill concurrently using field
measurements, inventory analyses, and modeling. Measured fluxes ranged from− 3.7 to 828 …

Sensitive drone mapping of methane emissions without the need for supplementary ground-based measurements

M Gålfalk, S Nilsson Påledal… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Methane (CH4) is one of the main greenhouse gas for which sources and sinks are poorly
constrained and better capacity of mapping landscape emissions are broadly requested. A …

[HTML][HTML] State of the Art and Future Perspectives of Atmospheric Chemical Sensing Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Bibliometric Analysis

DB Marin, V Becciolini, LS Santana, G Rossi, M Barbari - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used to monitor
and assess air quality. The interest in the application of UAVs in monitoring air pollutants …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced leak detection and quantification of methane emissions using sUAS

D Hollenbeck, D Zulevic, Y Chen - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Mobile measurements of atmospheric methane at eight large landfills: An assessment of temporal and spatial variability

T Xia, SG Borjigin, J Raneses, CA Stroud… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Municipal solid waste landfills are major contributors to anthropogenic emissions of
methane (CH4), which is the major component of natural gas, a potent greenhouse gas, and …

[HTML][HTML] Landfill emissions of methane inferred from unmanned aerial vehicle and mobile ground measurements

EP Olaguer, S Jeltema, T Gauthier, D Jermalowicz… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Municipal solid waste landfills are significant sources of atmospheric methane, the second
most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. Large emissions of methane from …