Lightweight aerial vehicles for monitoring, assessment and mapping of radiation anomalies

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-130

  MacFarlane, J W ^a   Payton, O D ^a   Keatley, A C ^a   Scott, G P T ^b   Pullin, H ^a   Crane, R A ^c   Smilion, M ^d   Popescu, I ^d   Curlea, V ^e   Scott, T B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d National Institute For Metals and Radioactive Resources Bucharest   (Romania)

^e National Company of Uranium   (Romania)

Author keywords

Characterisation; Gamma spectrometry; Radiation monitoring; Unmanned aerial system

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

CHARACTERISATION; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; RADIATION MONITORING; SURROUNDING REGIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES;

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; FALLOUT; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GPS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

ARTICLE; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLANT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; AIRCRAFT; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL POLLUTANT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AIRCRAFT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 84902470293     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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