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Find similar grantsDrone-mounted Water Quality Monitoring Sensor System is sponsored by USDA NIFA. Development of a drone-mounted sensing system for water quality monitoring, including dissolved oxygen levels.
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DRONE-MOUNTED WATER QUALITY MONITORING SENSOR SYSTEM | National Agricultural Library DRONE-MOUNTED WATER QUALITY MONITORING SENSOR SYSTEM The overall goal of the Phase II work is to design, fabricate, test, characterize, and field-test a drone-mounted sensing platform that can remotely access a waterbody to collect in-situ temporal and spatial data, thus dramatically reducing the cost of water quality monitoring.
The following specific objectives are planned:Objective 1. Optimize the phosphate sensor to achieve detection sensitivity of 0-2 mg/L. Objective 2.
Reduce response time of pH, DO, nitrate, and phosphate sensors to <3 min. Objective 3. Perform shelf-life studies of pH, DO, nitrate, and phosphate to meet two-year requirement.
Objective 4. Build a calibration function for pH, DO, nitrate, and phosphate sensors with temperature compensation. Objective 5.
Incorporate additional sensors (temperature, conductivity, and turbidity) into system. Objective 6. Fabricate and characterize a drone-mounted sensor system prototype for multi-parameter monitoring.
Objective 7. Test and validate drone-mounted prototype in watershed operations. Objective 8.
Present a sensor unit design review to the USDA program manager and generate a roadmap for progression to a commercial product. INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. Nat'l. Inst.
of Food and Agriculture https://portal. nifa. usda.
gov/web/crisprojectpages/1032940. html
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