UAS-based real-time water quality monitoring, sampling, and visualization platform (UASWQP).

ABSTRACT: Urbanization, land use change, and agricultural activities continue to affect water quality standards at the urban-rural interface, such as the Boise River System located in Idaho, USA. This project demonstrates how the off-the-shelf unmanned aircraft system (UAS, also known as drone) equipped with other necessary hardware attachments can be used to monitor real-time water quality components, including pH, water temperature, electric conductivity (EC), and dissolved oxygen at open waterbodies. The proposed UAS-based hardware platform for water quality studies (UASWQP) appears a promising tool to advance environmental research activities, especially for impaired waterways (e.g., rivers, lakes, and reservoirs). The preliminary result shows that the proposed UASWQP effectively displays water

SUBMITTER: Ryu JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058718 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature