Yangsan City Uses Advanced Surveillance Equipment 'Drone' for Environmental Monitoring

Yangsan City in Gyeongnam has begun intensive management of air pollutant emission sites, focusing on factories and areas with high concentrations of industrial facilities, by utilizing drones.

Environmental Monitoring Using Drones.

Yangsan City plans to deploy drones equipped with air pollutant measurement devices and cameras?one each in the western and eastern parts of Yangsan?to monitor pollutant emissions in environmentally vulnerable and factory-concentrated areas.

The pollutants that can be measured include fine dust (PM10, 2.5), sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). By using drones, the city expects to manage environmental violations more efficiently, overcoming the time and spatial limitations that previously made such monitoring difficult.

Continuous monitoring will mainly target industrial complexes, large construction sites, and other businesses that generate significant amounts of air pollutants and fugitive dust. For sites where dust and other measurements exceed allowable emission standards, the city will directly measure air pollutant samples from facility chimneys to precisely check compliance, thereby improving the efficiency of inspections.

Lee Dooyoung, Director of the Climate and Environment Division, stated, "Through highly mobile inspections using advanced equipment, we will strengthen the management of air pollutant emission sites and the monitoring of illegal emission sources to protect citizens' health and create a pleasant environment."