Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Monitoring Urban and Maritime Pollution

Date/Time 
Date(s) - April 20, 2023
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Date/Time
Date(s) - April 20, 2023
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location
CREATE Theatrette, Level 2, CREATE Tower

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Thursday 20th April
10am – 12pm SG

Agenda
10am – 11am : Talk in CREATE Theatrette
11am – 11:30am: Morning Tea
11:30am – 12pm: Drone demo at UTown Green

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle was used to monitor particle emissions for in-use maritime vessels in Rafina, Greece, a port serving primarily passenger ferries to nearby islands, in September 2021. This field campaign had two primary objectives: 1) Collect drone-based measurements that would measure the vertical component for a direct plume dispersion that can be used in emission modelling communities, by the public health sector, as well as decarbonisation initiatives, and 2) To show how both urban and maritime pollution can be monitored using an unmanned aerial vehicle to get spatially resolved information on harmful pollutants. The sensors used included AethLab Aethalometers that measure black carbon, TSI P-Traks that measure the number of particles in a given sample volume, and Naneos Partectors that determine Lung Deposited Surface Area (LDSA) of a particle. Although particle sensors were used for this campaign, gaseous sensors can also be used.

Speaker

Dr Molly Haugen – Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge

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