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Image courtesy Daniel Franklin Krause

Early on, many drone service

Technologies to providers were flying way too close in detect and quantify the wind wake where you get a higher concentration of methane and using methane emissions dispersion modelling did not work well.

are rapidly evolving.

– DANIEL FRANKLIN – JULIEN PEREZ, KRAUSE,

MANAGING DIRECTOR, OGCI RESEARCH ENGINEER, SINTEF

Downwind transect pattern with detected cross-sectional area of encountered plumes depicted. These transects were flown approximately 170 meters downwind of the plat- form. The flight pattern start- ed from the helideck and then conducted the transects from low altitude to high altitude, pausing for approximately 5 seconds at the beginning and end of each transect to get static wind readings.

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