Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
AMT
Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3795-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3795-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
Research article
 | 
26 May 2021
Research article |  | 26 May 2021

Distributed wind measurements with multiple quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles in the atmospheric boundary layer

Tamino Wetz, Norman Wildmann, and Frank Beyrich

Model code and software

mavlink/qgroundcontrol v4.0.9 D. Gagne, L. Meier, G. Grubba, P. B. Bot, D. Agar, P. J. Pereira, M. Carpenter, T. Stellanova, T. Gubler, J. Walser, T. Canabrava, M. Lizarraga, N. Weibley, pixhawk students, B. Küng, A. Voznytsa, W. Galvani, M. Frančeškin, pierre.tilak, R. Jehangir, oberion, tecnosapiens, A. Bircher, J. Tapsell, G. D, B. Bonney, J. Oes, N. Anthony, P. Ghanghas, and S. Kuula https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3937530

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Short summary
A fleet of quadrotors is presented as a system to measure the spatial distribution of atmospheric boundary layer flow. The big advantage of this approach is that multiple and flexible measurement points in space can be sampled synchronously. The algorithm to calculate the horizontal wind is based on the principle of aerodynamic drag and the related quadrotor dynamics. The validation reveals that an average accuracy of < 0.3 m s−1 for the wind speed and < 8° for the wind direction was achieved.
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