Wildland Fire Emission Sampling at Fishlake National Forest, Utah Using an Unmanned Aircraft System.

ABSTRACT: Emissions from a stand replacement prescribed burn were sampled using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS, or "drone") in Fishlake National Forest, Utah, U.S.A. Sixteen flights over three days in June 2019 provided emission factors for a broad range of compounds including carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO₂), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen oxide (NO₂), particulate matter < 2.5 microns in diameter (PM_2.5), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including carbonyls, black carbon, and elemental/organic carbon. To our knowledge, this is the first UAS-based emission sampling for a fire of this magnitude, including both slash pile and crown fires resulting in wildfire-like conditions. The burns consisted of drip torch ignitions as well as ground-mobile and aerial heli

SUBMITTER: Aurell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8318188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature