Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2177-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2177-2022
Research article
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11 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 11 Apr 2022

Controlled-release experiment to investigate uncertainties in UAV-based emission quantification for methane point sources

Randulph Morales, Jonas Ravelid, Katarina Vinkovic, Piotr Korbeń, Béla Tuzson, Lukas Emmenegger, Huilin Chen, Martina Schmidt, Sebastian Humbel, and Dominik Brunner

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Mapping trace gas emission plumes using in situ measurements from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an emerging and attractive possibility to quantify emissions from localized sources. We performed an extensive controlled-release experiment to develop an optimal quantification method and to determine the related uncertainties under various environmental and sampling conditions. Our approach was successful in quantifying local methane sources from drone-based measurements.