2018 CEE Zekkos Landfill Drones
Chenghang Liu (left), Civil Engineering Undergraduate, with Cassandra Champagne, Graduate Student Research Assistant, set up a commercially available DJI Phantom 4 drone instrumented with standard optical cameras and a third-party infrared camera inside a landfill in Midland, MI. on October 16, 2018.
These drones can autonomously collect optical imagery, infrared imagery, and methane concentration data in a fraction of the time it takes for someone to manually walk around the landfill taking individual methane readings.
Methane gas (CH4) is generated in landfills through the anaerobic (absence of oxygen) digestion of the buried waste and is estimated by the EPA to be 28-36 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere because it is that much more efficient at trapping heat in the ozone.
Photo: Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
2018 CEE Zekkos Landfill Drones
Chenghang Liu (left), Civil Engineering Undergraduate, with Cassandra Champagne, Graduate Student Research Assistant, set up a commercially available DJI Phantom 4 drone instrumented with standard optical cameras and a third-party infrared camera inside a landfill in Midland, MI. on October 16, 2018.
These drones can autonomously collect optical imagery, infrared imagery, and methane concentration data in a fraction of the time it takes for someone to manually walk around the landfill taking individual methane readings.
Methane gas (CH4) is generated in landfills through the anaerobic (absence of oxygen) digestion of the buried waste and is estimated by the EPA to be 28-36 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere because it is that much more efficient at trapping heat in the ozone.
Photo: Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing