Implementation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Reporting Plume Cloud Concentration Values in a 3D Simulation Environment
Journal: Journal of Bioresource Management
Year: 2018

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, have the potential to vastly improve plume cloud tracking at low cost.Plume clouds can be produced from blast mining, chemical warfare, unintended man-made disasters, and natural causes.This thesis provides implementation of the capability to simulate a 3D environment in which UAVs are individually controlled and each report a plume's concentration value at a specific location.It leverages existing industry standard technologies, including the PX4 autopilot sys