A detailed survey and future directions of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) with potential applications

N Elmeseiry, N Alshaer, T Ismail - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained
widespread interest in civilian and military applications, which has led to the development of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of source term estimation methods for atmospheric dispersion events using static or mobile sensors

M Hutchinson, H Oh, WH Chen - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
Understanding atmospheric transport and dispersal events has an important role in a range
of scenarios. Of particular importance is aiding in emergency response after an intentional or …

Methodologies for measuring fugitive methane emissions from landfills–A review

J Mønster, P Kjeldsen, C Scheutz - Waste Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Fugitive methane (CH 4) emissions from landfills are significant global sources of
greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere; thus, reducing them would be a beneficial …

A review of close-range and screening technologies for mitigating fugitive methane emissions in upstream oil and gas

TA Fox, TE Barchyn, D Risk… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Fugitive methane emissions from the oil and gas industry are targeted using leak detection
and repair (LDAR) programs. Until recently, only a limited number of measurement …

Natural gas fugitive leak detection using an unmanned aerial vehicle: Localization and quantification of emission rate

LM Golston, NF Aubut, MB Frish, S Yang, RW Talbot… - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
We describe a set of methods for locating and quantifying natural gas leaks using a small
unmanned aerial system equipped with a path-integrated methane sensor. The algorithms …

Aircraft-based measurements of point source methane emissions in the Barnett Shale basin

TN Lavoie, PB Shepson, MOL Cambaliza… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report measurements of methane (CH4) emission rates observed at eight different high-
emitting point sources in the Barnett Shale, Texas, using aircraft-based methods performed …

Source term estimation of a hazardous airborne release using an unmanned aerial vehicle

M Hutchinson, C Liu, WH Chen - Journal of Field Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Gaining information about an unknown gas source is a task of great importance with
applications in several areas, including responding to gas leaks or suspicious smells …

Information-based search for an atmospheric release using a mobile robot: Algorithm and experiments

M Hutchinson, C Liu, WH Chen - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding the location and strength of an unknown hazardous release is of paramount
importance in emergency response and environmental monitoring; thus, it has been an …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-sensing paradigm based urban air quality monitoring and hazardous gas source analyzing: a review

Z Zhu, B Chen, Y Zhao, Y Ji - Journal of safety science and resilience, 2021 - Elsevier
Effectively monitoring urban air quality, and analyzing the source terms of the main
atmospheric pollutants is important for public authorities to take air quality management …

Spatiotemporal variability of methane emissions at oil and natural gas operations in the Eagle Ford Basin

TN Lavoie, PB Shepson, MOL Cambaliza… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Methane emissions from oil and gas facilities can exhibit operation-dependent temporal
variability; however, this variability has yet to be fully characterized. A field campaign was …