Computer Science and Engineering Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenței 313, Sector 6, 060042 Bucharest, Romania.
Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jan 23;22(3):860. doi: 10.3390/s22030860.
During the last few years, scientists have become increasingly concerned about air quality. Particularly in large cities and industrialised areas, air quality is affected by pollution from natural and anthropogenic sources and this has a significant impact on human health. Continuous monitoring of air quality is an important step in investigating the causes and reducing pollution. In this paper, we propose a new autonomous multi-rotor aerial platform that can be used to perform real-time monitoring of air quality in large cities. The air quality monitoring system is able to cover large areas, with high spatial resolution, even above average buildings, while being relatively low cost. We evaluate the proposed system in several locations throughout a metropolitan city, during different seasons and generate fine-grained heat-maps that display the level of pollution of specific areas based on different altitudes.
在过去的几年中，科学家们越来越关注空气质量。特别是在大城市和工业化地区，空气质量受到来自自然和人为源的污染的影响，这对人类健康有重大影响。对空气质量进行连续监测是调查污染原因和减少污染的重要步骤。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的自主多旋翼空中平台，可用于对大城市的空气质量进行实时监测。空气质量监测系统能够以高空间分辨率覆盖大面积区域，甚至可以覆盖高于平均建筑物的区域，同时成本相对较低。我们在大都市的多个地点、不同季节对所提出的系统进行了评估，并生成了细粒度的热图，根据不同的海拔高度显示特定区域的污染水平。
