Aerial Water Sampling Drone

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.

Aerial water sampling drone.

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. The adaptive water sampling with unmanned aerial vehicle assisted water sampling device was proved to be a successful method for water quality evaluation. 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. This is from the university of nebraska lincoln nimbus lab see http.

A hyperspectral camera is mounted on this pelican drone. The solution also allows for the collection of in situ profiles of physiochemical parameters i e temperature electrical conductivity and water density. 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. 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.

In this video we demonstrate a multi rotor aerial vehicle that can obtain water samples in remote and hard to access locations. Among others aerial drones can be used as carriers for air sampling systems analyzers and sensors replacing or complementing the traditional ways to sampling at high altitudes such as airships aircrafts tethered balloons and meteorological towers.