Oil recovery vessel during KEMI-Arctic 2015 Exercise – Unmanned Aerial vehicles were demonstrated in this Exercise
UAV-ARCTIC in brief
The goal of this project is to define suitable knowledge related to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and to integrate innovative sensor solutions to UAV’s to develop novel tools for environmental monitoring. The target area for this development work is the Arctic and Baltic Sea environmental conditions. The project is focusing especially on suitable tools to monitor oil and chemical spills in cold environment. Tests and field trial will be conducted during the project with workshops among UAV/RPAS* specialists and governmental agencies. An English written summary report will be produced in Spring 2017 including test results from oil and chemical sensor tests conducted.
* RPAS – Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
RPAS used during oil combating exercise outside of Helsinki, September 2016
Major Events
First major event of UAV-Arctic project was conducted in March 2016 in the Port of Kalajoki, see the map of the area. A two days long test was performed in day and night conditions to study the possibility to detect oil among ice and slush in winter conditions. Both RPAS and helicopters were used to detect oil from pools locating in the port area. Each pool contained seawater, oil, ice block and snow in a predefined manner. An Expert workshop with scientists, pilots and RAPS specialist took place in the test site in 13 – 15 March 2016.
The test site in Kalajoki port in March 2016
Experts planning the flight schedule for the tests in March 2016
Quadropod RPAS ready to take off
The second major event of UAV-ARCTIC took place in the middle part of Finland – in KUOPIO in 1.-2. November 2016:
- Tests to detect RPAS to detect airborne chemicals and HNS agents was made with a special task force in the training area of the Emergency Services College.
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Workshop Programme
A two days long international seminar was arranged in the premises of the College. The seminar included three special sessions. After the seminar, demos was arranged in the training area.
Seminar presentations
SESSION I, Technical and Operational Demands
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RPAS services required for the pollution prevention in Finland, J Rytkönen (pdf, 3 395 kb)
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RPAS Roadmap 2016 for Finnish Rescue Services, Teemu Veneskari (pdf, 1 786 kb)
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Remotely piloted aircraft systems-opportunity and threat for the police, S Hätönen (pdf, 1 296 kb)
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RPAS pilot and equipment requirements in voluntary SAR operations in Finland, J Kangasniemi (pdf, 188 kb)
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Training is foundation of safe RPAS operations, A Nissinen (pdf, 626 kb)
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Small RPAS as a Tool for Underwater Habitat Mapping, K OBrian (pdf, 9 923 kb)
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Is a RPAS missing piece of common operational picture, K Junttila (pdf, 2 025 kb)
SESSION II, Sensors, Data Handling & Transmission
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RPAS-assisted detecting and monitoring of gaseous compounds, M Irjala (pdf, 3 375 kb)
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Real time telemetry data processing and analysis, E Räsänen (pdf, 391 kb)
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Remote Sensing of Marine Oil Spills Using Synthetic Aperture Radas, S Skrunes (pdf, 90 139 kb)
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UAV applications for oil spill detection, suspended matter distribution an ice monitoring-first tests and trials in Estonia, S Rikka (pdf, 3 401 kb)
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Geophysical surveys using Drones, A Saartenoja (pdf, 1 939 kb)
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Utilizing unmanned systems for real-time data collection and sharing, T Pohjonen (pdf, 1 599 kb)
SESSION III, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
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The challenges of RPAS in Sweden, B Solberg (pdf, 687 kb)
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24/7 Drone services for the critical functions of the society (pdf, 2 165 kb)
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Experiences on sensor testing for oil and chemical response operations, Jukka Sassi (pdf, 1 950 kb)
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Small RPAS in Oil Spill Response of Contaminated Sea Bird Rescue, H Arponen (pdf, 4 082 kb)
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RPAS as a business concept - funding posibilities, P Moilanen (pdf, 1 170 kb)
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Integrated environmental surveillance using unmanned vehicle systems, V Hovsten (pdf, 6 376 kb)
More information:
Mr. Jorma Rytkönen, E-mail: jorma.rytkonen@ymparisto.fi; Tel: +358 40 180 1447