The review concludes with a call for a more strategic and collaborative research effort between developers, academia, and the public sector to improve environmental monitoring standards and best practices for device and array design.
Airbus is hoping the vote of confidence from the British MoD will lead to more sales, not just in the military sector but in the civil sphere as well - in environmental monitoring, for example.
"We work mostly with refineries and pipeline companies on safety projects – trying to stop explosions from happening, but environmental monitoring for air quality is a fast growing sector for us," Sawyer said.
FTS, the world leader in environmental monitoring solutions, took the initiative to set up a sector-internal quality assurance program, to which other companies could subscribe.74.74
The public health significance of HELIX-Atlanta is to provide information regarding the five-county metropolitan Atlanta area through a network of integrated environmental monitoring and public health information systems so that all sectors can take action to prevent environmentally related health effects.
In the past decade, a rapid development of UAVs has been observed especially in civil sector, for example in monitoring applications such as environmental monitoring, search and rescue operations, pollution monitoring, port and off shoreline security, forest fire detection, and so on [5].
The use of sensors is not limited to medical sectors; there is also the big market of environmental monitoring which is served sometimes by the same companies.
In addition to communication and entertainment, a wide range of other life sectors can benefit from evolving multimedia applications, including healthcare, environmental monitoring, transportation and public safety.
Environmental monitoring bodies will be watching closely.
