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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2024
First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Shandong, CN;
Jun Du, Shandong, CN;
Ziwen Tian, Shandong, CN;
Guoqiang Xu, Shandong, CN;
Yuxiu Jin, Shandong, CN;
Qian Li, Shandong, CN;
Abstract
Provided is a sampling method for surface sediments in an intertidal zone based on an unmanned aerial vehicle platform, including: at low tide, automatically or manually moving an unmanned aerial vehicle to an appropriate height above a sampling position of the surface sediments in the intertidal zone according to a preset waypoint. The unmanned aerial vehicle platform is equipped with a winch, a releaser and a surface sampler. Operation process: the sampler is released, and the sampler is inserted into seabed by gravity to obtain a sample with a specified quality; the unmanned aerial vehicle rises vertically, and uses a lift to take the sample off an intertidal zone ground; the winch is started to recover the sampler to a bottom of the unmanned aerial vehicle; after the completion, the unmanned aerial vehicle automatically or manually returns to an initial position.