UAV-based gas monitoring systems for the underpinning of urban, agricultural and industrial emission roadmaps

Currently sampling of the atmosphere for gas emission measurements has to be done by building towers or hiring airplanes - capital-intensive methods. Easy access to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has opened-up new opportunities for remote gas sampling. The project Iso-2-Drone aims to develop and produce a modular UAV-based gas monitoring system for emission measurements to substitute current technologies. In Iso-2-Drone we will (1) further develop passive and active air samplers (2) construct and test a universal UAV connector and swarm technologies (3) make adaptations to UAVs (baffles) and mesh this system to commercially available stable isotope instrumentation to create a new product and service proposition. The system will be evaluated, optimized and commercial casings developed to compliment user-friendly protocols for the sampling and measurement of major and minor atmospheric compounds (CO2, N2O, CH4 and volatile organic compounds).