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Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles for the rapid and high-resolution determination of contamination
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Peter, Martin |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The 2011 events at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) as a result of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami released considerable quantities of highly-radioactive material into the global environment. This catastrophic release of radioactivity highlighted the need for a rapid and highly-spatially accurate means by which to determine the distribution of such contamination – not only in response to disaster-release scenarios but also for the potential application to wider monitoring following a nuclear dispersion incident, illicit material trafficking or as part of routine site monitoring. This work from the University of Bristol, launched in direct response to the incident at Fukushima, is the combined low-altitude multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle coupled with a lightweight radiation detection and mapping system. Via this system, it was possible to determine the spread of contamination with sub-meter resolution as well as attributing the species responsible. The use of UAVs represents an important tool in the remote sensing toolkit, with applications in areas in addition to radiological monitoring. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.17862/cranfield.rd.4288322.v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/89555711/D_S_Symposium_PGM1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.4288322.v1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
