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Low-cost British airline easyJet PLC unveiled plans Friday to test the ability of infrared technology to detect volcanic ash clouds and urged other airlines to help map the ash risk across Europe's skies. The company said the devices — which are placed on an aircraft's tail fin and can detect ash clouds within 100 kilometres — are the first of their kind and are "essentially a weather radar for ash."
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There  are advan­tages to hav­ing a vast work of air­planes in the air. They can take read­ings around the clock, at dif­fer­ent alti­tudes and could actu­ally serve as the pri­mary source for air qual­ity data of all kinds. And, who would have through they could actu­ally be pro­vid­ing air­borne sens­ing data use­ful to car­bon and green­house gases and other particles.
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