National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
A UAV-based active AirCore system for measurements of greenhouse gases
iplicensable technology / software / copyrightIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Intellectual Property
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder
Description
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) version of the AirCore technique invented by NOAA: a small pump pulls air through a roughly 50 m stainless-steel tube during flight so air can be sampled along the flight path, and the samples are analyzed on site with a cavity ring-down spectrometer for CO2, CH4 and CO. Test flights near Lutjewad in the Netherlands agreed well with a fixed measurement station, captured the morning boundary-layer changes, and found a methane hotspot in coastal wetlands.
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https://techpartnerships.noaa.gov/uav-aircore-greenhouse-gases/
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Details
- Keywords
- greenhouse gas monitoring, atmospheric air sampling, unmanned aerial vehicles, aircore technique, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, boundary layer profiling, methane hotspot detection
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Associated entity
- Technology Partnerships Office