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Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation (CMERI) at UC Merced

Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation (CMERI)  at UC Merced

http://methane.ucmerced.edu/

 

From review paper: "Advanced Leak Detection and Quantification of Methane Emissions Using sUAS" https://doi.org/10.3390/drones5040117

CMERI Mission Statement: "The Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation (CMERI) at UC Merced takes closed-loop thinking (sensing/actuation) for taking climate actions against methane emissions due to both environmental and anthropogenic emissions. CMERI aims to develop actionable information from methane emission sensing and quantification for emission reduction and mitigation actions, and to contribute to education, outreach and workforce development for disadvantaged communities."

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Current team members:

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Publications: ALL .docx or ALL .pdf (last updated 2/26/2023)

  • a few highlighted papers (one per year)
    • B Smith, G John, B Stark, LE Christensen, YQ Chen. 2016 "Applicability of unmanned aerial systems for leak detection" 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1220-1227. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2016.7502635
    • BJ Smith, G John, LE Christensen, YQ Chen. 2017. "Fugitive methane leak detection using sUAS and miniature laser spectrometer payload: System, application and groundtruthing tests" 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 369-374 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2017.7991403
    • D Hollenbeck, G Nunez, LE Christensen, YQ Chen. 2018. "Wind measurement and estimation with small unmanned aerial systems (suas) using on-board mini ultrasonic anemometers" 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 285-292 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2018.8453418
    • D Hollenbeck, M Dahabra, LE Christensen, YQ Chen. 2019. "Data quality aware flight mission design for fugitive methane sniffing using fixed wing sUAS" 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2019.8798176
    • D Hollenbeck, YQ Chen. 2020. "Characterization of ground-to-air emissions with sUAS using a digital twin framework". 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1162-1166 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS48674.2020.9213959
    • Hollenbeck, Derek, Demitrius Zulevic, and Yangquan Chen. 2021. "Advanced Leak Detection and Quantification of Methane Emissions Using sUAS" Drones 5, no. 4: 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones5040117
    • D Hollenbeck, YQ Chen. 2022. "A Digital Twin Framework For Environmental Sensing with sUAS" Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 105 (1), 1-15  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-021-01542-8
    • Derek Hollenbeck, Kevin Zheng, Demitrius Zulevic, YangQuan Chen 2023. “Swarm Robotic Source Seeking With Fractional Fluxotaxis” Accepted to appear at the 2023 Int. Conf. on Fractional Derivatives and Applications (ICFDA23), Dubai, UAE, March 2023.

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Created and last updated by Dr. Chen, YangQuan on 2/26/2023