An overview of small unmanned aerial vehicles for air quality measurements: Present applications and future prospectives

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Villa, Tommasofrancesco ^a   Gonzalez, Felipe ^b   Miljevic, Branka ^a   Ristovski, Zoran D ^a   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Air quality; Atmosphere; Pollution; Sensors; UAVs

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AEROSOLS; ANTENNAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SERVICES; POLLUTION; SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIR QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; AIR QUALITY MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; GROUND-BASED MONITORING; POLICY AND REGULATION; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 84978976769     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16071072     Document Type: Article

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