Environmental Monitoring

Several environmental monitoring and compliance programs involves the usage of drones to enforce laws and to look for hard to detect illegal activities.

Among various application drones can be deployed for land & environmental mapping, landscape & ecosystem monitoring, detection of illegal logging and dumping of harmful substances in land or waters, monitoring of rivers and other freshwater courses including thermal pollution, and finally yet importantly monitoring of dumps with associated biogas emissions.

Besides, biologists, geologist, hydrologists, and other academics uses drones for environmental risk assessment, as well as to collect data to be shared among the environmental sciences community, governments and institutions. ACES AIR has conducted several drone’s flyover missions aimed to enforce environmental monitoring of areas that would be otherwise inaccessible or cost-prohibitive.