Aerial Water Sampling Drone

A hyperspectral camera is mounted on this pelican drone.

Aerial water sampling drone.

The adaptive water sampling with unmanned aerial vehicle assisted water sampling device was proved to be a successful method for water quality evaluation. Advancements in drone technology have seen the development of drone assisted water sampling payloads resulting in the ability of drones to retrieve water samples and physico chemical data from aquatic ecosystems. This is from the university of nebraska lincoln nimbus lab see http. By using an attachment patent pending that hatch has developed for drones water samples can be collected below the water surface without the need for personnel to access the lake surface.

The drone and sampling equipment can fly out over the lake and gather water from the surface layer a transitional layer and a deep layer to account for thermal and chemical stratification. In this video we demonstrate a multi rotor aerial vehicle that can obtain water samples in remote and hard to access locations. To enable us to sample water quicker and more often without it having to cost more researchers from tu delft are developing a watertight drone capable of landing on and even diving under water automatically. Water sampling uav in action collecting a sample at a depth of 80 meters the drone collected the water sample and the team was able to quickly analyze it for ph iron species and total arsenic using hatch s mobile water testing lab.

Their outline of the kusatsu shirane volcano and the complete methodology uses a drone to sample the lake water from the crater lake a sampling device metal free bottle made of high density polyethylene for sampling as well as a couple of sampling procedures. The aerial drone first suspended a conductivity temperature depth ctd probe capable of measuring in situ parameters to a depth of 100 m and then suspended a water sampling device capable of collecting 2 l water samples up to 120 m deep.