Drone-Based Wind Measurements in Aquatic Environments

The increased presence of harmful algal blooms in freshwater lakes, rivers, and reservoirs, as well as marine coastal areas and estuaries, poses a threat to wildlife and public health. Understanding how microscale atmospheric flows vary with space and time where land and water interface in aquatic environments is critical for characterizing the atmospheric transport of aerosolized cyanobacteria toxins produced by harmful algal blooms. Our study demonstrates that multirotor small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) can reliably provide high-resolution observations of atmospheric flow variations in aquatic environments where surface heterogeneity is significant. High-fidelity measurements of atmospheric flows in aquatic environments can lead to improved atmospheric transport predictions, giving way to new possibilities for developing advisory systems that are precise, connected, and automated to reduce the number of exposure events for downwind communities.
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J. Gonzalez-Rocha, L. Bilyeu, S.D. Ross, H. Foroutan, S. Jacquemin, A.P. Ault, D.G. Schmale III [2023] Sensing atmospheric flows in aquatic environments using multirotor small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS), Environmental Science: Atmospheres 3, 305. DOI 10.1039/D2EA00042C
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