Zhukauskas S. Improving environmental safety management systems using unmanned aerial vehicles and aerospace technologies

Zhukauskas S.V. Improving environmental safety management systems using unmanned aerial vehicles and aerospace technologies. - On the rights of the manuscript. Thesis for a Candidate of Science Degree in Specialty 21.06.01 - Environmental Security. - State Ecological Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management, Kyiv, 2020. The dissertation presents the results of research aimed at revealing the features of improving the system of environmental safety management in the management of hazardous substances through the application of the proposed method of forecasting emergencies to reduce environmental threats and risks using unmanned aerial vehicles. According to the results of the dissertation, a topical scientific problem has been solved - improvement of the environmental safety management system for the management of hazardous substances through the application of the proposed method of forecasting emergencies to reduce environmental threats and risks with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles of environmental monitoring. The analysis of the current state of the system of environmental safety management in the management of hazardous substances, modern systems of monitoring the status of territories with the management of dangerous substances. The peculiarities of the use of assessment methods for the status of territories with the management of hazardous substances in the system of environmental monitoring are determined. An analytical review of the means of environmental control has been carried out. It offers sound recommendations for the use of aerospace technologies for environmental monitoring of the state of the handling of hazardous substances. The technology of accounting ergatic processes in flight control of a group of remotely piloted aircraft in the State system of ecological monitoring has been developed. The estimation of the influence of the turbulence of the air environment on the UAV in environmental monitoring has been made. Requirements for radio communication lines with unmanned aerial vehicles during environmental monitoring have been formed. The technique of improvement of the system of ecological safety management in handling of hazardous substances is proposed. The technology of statistical estimation of ecological emergencies of man-made nature in handling of hazardous substances is proposed. Methods of environmental risk assessment for handling hazardous substances have been developed. The analysis of the approaches to the complex ecological assessment of the territories with consideration of the permanent and emergency environmental risks is carried out. Improved environmental risk management system for handling hazardous substances. Mathematical and statistical evaluation of the characteristics of emergency risk in the handling of hazardous substances is carried out. Scientific and practical recommendations for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the environmental monitoring system for the observation of areas with dangerous substances have been developed. The scheme-technical solution of the system of ecological monitoring for the observation of territories with dangerous substances by means of unmanned aerial vehicles is offered. An ecological assessment of threats and risks by the state of the observation territories has been made. Provided and substantiated scientific and practical recommendations for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for observation of areas with dangerous substances. The practical significance of the obtained results is that the proposed scientific and methodological apparatus allows to increase the reliability and information capabilities of environmental monitoring systems for the determination of environmental risk zones based on the use of mobile complexes of environmental assessment of the region using geoinformation and aerospace technologies. Keywords: nuclear power plants, unmanned aerial vehicle, remotely piloted aircraft, environmental risk, pollutants, environmental emergencies, terrestrial management, critical infrastructure, environmental impact assessment, man-made facilities.