Design of Meteorological Element Detection Platform for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Based on UAV

• Published in: International Journal of Aerospace Engineering Vol. 2017; no. 2017; pp. 1 - 14-016
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yonghong, Liu, Yunping, Dong, Tiantian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Limiteds 01.01.2017; Hindawi Publishing Corporation; Hindawi; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hindawi Limited; Wiley
• Subjects: Accuracy; Aerospace engineering; Aircraft; Analysis; Atmospheric boundary layer; Data management; Design and construction; Design engineering; Drone aircraft; Humidity; Information science; Methods; Planetary boundary layer; Relative humidity; Remote sensing; Remote sensing systems; Science; Sensors; Sounding; Systems design; Ultra wideband technologies; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicles; China
• ISSN: 1687-5966; 1687-5974
• DOI: 10.1155/2017/1831676

Among current detection methods of the atmospheric boundary layer, sounding balloon has disadvantages such as low recovery and low reuse rate, anemometer tower has disadvantages such as fixed location and high cost, and remote sensing detection has disadvantages such as low data accuracy. In this paper, a meteorological element sensor was carried on a six-rotor UAV platform to achieve detection of meteorological elements of the atmospheric boundary layer, and the influence of different installation positions of the meteorological element sensor on the detection accuracy of the meteorological element sensor was analyzed through many experiments. Firstly, a six-rotor UAV platform was built through mechanical structure design and control system design. Secondly, data such as temperature, relative humidity, pressure, elevation, and latitude and longitude were collected by designing a meteorological element detection system. Thirdly, data management of the collected data was conducted, including local storage and real-time display on ground host computer. Finally, combined with the comprehensive analysis of the data of automatic weather station, the validity of the data was verified. This six-rotor UAV platform carrying a meteorological element sensor can effectively realize the direct measurement of the atmospheric boundary layer and in some cases can make up for the deficiency of sounding balloon, anemometer tower, and remote sensing detection.