The three-staged solution approach which was chosen for the realization of the AirShield project can be comprehended by the illustration above. 

The first stage contains the "flying units" consisting of flying robots and gas measurement devices. These flying units move on predefined routes along the concentration gradient of the aerosol and send the acquired measurement data to the ground station at regular time intervals.

The second stage is the invocation of the Geo-decision support system located on ground inside the Mission Control Center (MCC). Here the data received from the drones are evaluated, linked to topological and geographical information and finally presented to the user in a tangible descriptive form, together with additional data.

The connection between the first two stages is characterised  by a highly reliable communication system. This on one hand will consist of  the so called "Inter MUAV Links" between the individual flying robots of a swarm and on the other hand of "MUAV to Ground Station Links", which will guarantee the communication of the swarm with the Mission Control Center (MCC). For sustaining both kinds of communication, state-of-art procedures and processes are used for AirShield.