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In the event of an invisible hazardous substance accidental leak or ecological disaster, avoiding the substance is a challenge to humans. This is because there is no visual reference to use in order to keep away from the polluted area or at least keep to the areas of lower substance concentration. Such a substance could include huge quantities of carbon dioxide as was the case in 1986 when the lake nyos in cameroon released an underwater storage of carbon dioxide into the air.
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Oyekan, J.O. (2016). Introduction. In: Tracking and Mapping of Spatiotemporal Quantities Using Unicellular Swarm Intelligence. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27425-6_1
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