Application of a territorial remote radiation monitoring system at the Chornobyl nuclear accident site

Volodymyr Burtniak; Yurii Zabulonov; Maksym Stokolos; Leonid Bulavin; Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.12.046007

13 October 2018 Application of a territorial remote radiation monitoring system at the Chornobyl nuclear accident site

Volodymyr Burtniak, Yurii Zabulonov, Maksym Stokolos, Leonid Bulavin, Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, Issue 4, 046007 (October 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.12.046007

Abstract

Dynamic and static characteristics of nonstationary radiation fields are studied. The system on-board of an unmanned aerial vehicle is used for mapping of certain heavily contaminated areas of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor zone. Sources of ionizing radiation under uncertain and unfavorable conditions, with limited time of observation and measurement, have been measured in real time in one single process with a spatial resolution of around 0.5 m and a surface contamination sensitivity of 0.5 kBq · m^− 2. Small radioactive spots in an undulating forested area abundantly contaminated with high intensity radioactive isotopes have been plotted on a map.

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Volodymyr Burtniak, Yurii Zabulonov, Maksym Stokolos, Leonid Bulavin, and Volodymyr Krasnoholovets "Application of a territorial remote radiation monitoring system at the Chornobyl nuclear accident site," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 12(4), 046007 (13 October 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.12.046007

Received: 10 May 2018; Accepted: 25 September 2018; Published: 13 October 2018

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