MRI: Development of an Integrated Gas Monitoring and Source Identification Unmanned Aircraft System for Exploration, Compliance and Assessment

该项目开发了一个综合气体监测和源识别无人驾驶飞机系统（UAS），旨在探索，检查环境合规性，并评估关键活动，以便在UAS和传感器技术的新兴发展中开展广泛的适当的多学科和跨学科活动。这些活动满足区域和国家石油和天然气工业的需要。天然气勘探和环境合规与评估是能源行业的关键活动。用于检测陆地和水中排放物的新传感器技术提高了检测气体和通量（如氦气、甲烷、二氧化碳和石油）的能力。不幸的是，能源行业和监管机构在天然气勘探和源识别中使用这些技术是有限的（由于操作、部署和有效性问题）。拟议的仪器通过在无人机系统上集成先进的气体传感和成像（SAR和EO-IR）技术来解决这些问题。该仪器在空中平台上具有灵活的操作和配置，可以快速部署，并可以轻松测量大面积和偏远地区。基于UAS的仪器能够实现预定的测量任务，并基于以用户友好格式（包括叠加地图）呈现的组合地理编码成像-嗅探数据提供更有效的检测。该仪器将使能源行业能够做出明智的决策，以进行有效和具有成本效益的勘探，环境合规性和评估，以及研究和学术界提供新颖有效的传感平台该机构位于社会经济和教育隔离地区，拥有全国六个联邦航空管理局（FAA）测试场地之一，Lone星星UAS卓越与创新中心（LSUASC）此外，该机构致力于通过加强基础设施，教师和奖学金来扩大这些关键领域的研究和学术研究。该仪器促进了该地区的社会和经济发展，使研究人员能够利用该中心，RCN CE 3SAR和海湾地区工业提供的扩大机会。该项目扩大了代表性不足的大量学生的参与，并为他们提供了研究和培训机会。

This project, developing an integrated gas monitoring and source identification unmanned aircraft system (UAS), aims to explore, check environmental compliance, and assess critical activities to enable a wide range of appropriate multi- and inter-disciplinary activities with emerging developments in UAS and sensor technologies. These activities address regional and national oil and gas industry needs. Gas exploration and environmental compliance and assessment are critical activities for the energy industry. New sensor technologies for detecting emissions from land and water have improved the ability to detect gases and flux (such as helium, methane, carbon dioxide, and oil). Unfortunately, use of these technologies in gas exploration and source identification by the energy industry and regulatory agencies is limited (due to operation, deployment and effectiveness issues). The proposed instrument addresses these issues by integrating advanced gas sensing and imagery (SAR and EO-IR) technologies on a UAS. The instrument features flexible operation and configuration on an aerial platform that can be rapidly deployed and can easily survey large and remote areas. The UAS-based instrument enables predetermined surveying missions and provides a more effective detection based on a combined geocoded imaging-sniffing data that is presented in a user friendly format including overlay maps. The instrument will enable the - Energy industry to make well-informed decisions for efficient and cost-effective exploration, environmental compliance and assessment, and - Research and academic community with a novel and effective sensing platformThe institution, located in a socio-economically and educationally isolated region, has one of the six Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test sites in the nation, the Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence and Innovation (LSUASC). Moreover, the institution is committed to expanding research and academics among HSIs in these critical fields by enhancing infrastructure, faculty, and scholarship. This instrumentation promotes the social and economic development for the region enabling researchers to capitalize in the expanded opportunities offered by the center, RCN CE3SAR and industries in the Gulf. The project broadens the participation of and provides research and training opportunities for a large number of underrepresented students).