China's Liaoning province is deploying drone aircrafts to help tackle its growing smog problem, reports state news agency Xinhua.

In China's Liaoning Province, where the smog gets can get pretty unbearable in the colder months as coal is burned for heat, officials have used the drones' remote sensing systems to monitor air pollution and detect polluters.

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The drones provide real-time inspection of the source of pollutants, Wu Di, deputy director of the environmental inspection bureau in Liaoyang, told Xinhua.  Liaoyang is the first city in Liaoning to use drones in smog control.

"One drone will record the real-time ground image and send it back immediately to the command center," said Wu. Another will then fly to areas which we think cause smog, and then analyze the air quality index of those areas at an altitude between 200 and 1,000 meters," Wu said.

The information transmitted from the drone will help to determine if a factory emits too many pollutants, and the violators will be punished. 

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