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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Use of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in Water Chemistry Studies.

Georgios Katsouras, Elias Dimitriou, Sotirios Karavoltsos, Stylianos Samios, Aikaterini Sakellari, Angeliki Mentzafou, Nikolaos Tsalas, Michael Scoullos

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Georgios KatsourasAthens Water and Sewerage Company S.A. (E.Y.D.A.P.)-Research and Development, Oropou 156, 11146 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3249-3113
Elias DimitriouInstitute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters (IMBRIW), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., 19013 Anavyssos, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6669-6897
Sotirios KaravoltsosLaboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3540-123X
Stylianos SamiosAthens Water and Sewerage Company S.A. (E.Y.D.A.P.)-Research and Development, Oropou 156, 11146 Athens, Greece.
Aikaterini SakellariLaboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece.
Angeliki MentzafouInstitute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters (IMBRIW), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave., 19013 Anavyssos, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1427-2299
Nikolaos TsalasAthens Water and Sewerage Company S.A. (E.Y.D.A.P.)-Research and Development, Oropou 156, 11146 Athens, Greece.
Michael ScoullosLaboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece.

Funding

European Union 689341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) equipped with integrated sensors are a tool valuable to several monitoring strategies, offering enhanced temporal and spatial coverage over specific timeframes, allowing for targeted examination of sites or events of interest. The elaboration of environmental monitoring programs has relied so far on periodic spot sampling at specific locations, followed by laboratory analysis, aiming at the evaluation of water quality at a catchment scale. For this purpose, automatic telemetric stations for specific parameters have been installed by the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (IMBRIW-HCMR) within several Greek rivers and lakes, providing continuous and temporal monitoring possibilities. In the present work, USVs were deployed by the Athens Water and Sewerage Company (EYDAP) as a cost-effective tool for the environmental monitoring of surface water bodies of interest, with emphasis on the spatial fluctuations of chlorophyll α, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen and pH, observed in Koumoundourou Lake and the rivers Acheloos, Asopos and Kifissos. The effectiveness of an innovative heavy metal (HM) system installed in the USV for the in situ measurements of copper and lead was also evaluated herewith. The results obtained demonstrate the advantages of USVs, setting the base for their application in real-time monitoring of chemical parameters including metals. Simultaneously, the requirements for accuracy and sensitivity improvement of HM sensors were noted, in order to permit full exploitation of USVs' capacities.

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autonomous USVinland and coastal watersremote sensingtelemetric stationswater quality

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PMID38732916
PMCPMC11086208

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