The applications of air pollution monitoring platform of drone in air pollution profiling in southern Beijing

摘要

Air pollution has become a serious regional problem in recent years in China, and is oftenstrengthened by the atmospheric transport of the air pollutants. Although thousands of standard airquality monitoring stations have been established in the past several years in China, all of them areground based and can only obtain the data at surface level. Vertical distribution data of atmosphericpollutants are very scarce, and these data are of great significance to the study of long-rangetransport. The aloft transport of the air pollution has aroused extensive attention however therelative understanding is still insufficient due to the technical difficulties of aloft observation. Theaircraft measurement is a good way for the investigation of the air pollution profiling. Smalltransport planes have been well used for the aloft observation in the past decades in China.Nevertheless, the flight frequency and duration is still far from enough data collection due to thehigh cost and air traffic control. Recently, with the rapid technical development, various unmannedaerial vehicles started to be used for the air pollution measurement. In this study, an air pollutionmonitoring platform based on an unmanned drone is developed and the technical of shippinginstruments evaluation campaigns in southern Beijing is introduced.