Use of Drones for Air Quality Monitoring

Acronym

P_DRONE-AIR

Consortium Coordinator

Abarca Abarca, Monica Lucia

Start Date

2016

End Date

2018

Status

https://purl.org/pe-repo/concytec/estadoProyecto#suspendido

Description

The project qAIRa, initiative that started in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), presents the concept of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as Drones, for air quality monitoring and air contamination mapping. Air is the planet¿s most valuable resource and is nowadays being threatened by the high levels of contamination around the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Air contamination causes 1 in 10 deaths, which translates each year in the deceases of 7 million people globally. qAIRa develops and implements drones with sensing technology to monitor the quality of the air in order to analyze and prevent environmental contamination from the major industries and protect people¿s health by keeping the level of contaminants emissions under the limits proposed by the regulation agencies. This project aims to use big data analytics and robotics to digitize and democratize air quality information as a real-time global contamination map.

Keywords

Drones

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Calidad del aire

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Monitoreo ambiental

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Sensores

Área de conocimiento

Natural sciences

Campo OCDE

https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.08