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UBC Air Quality Sensor

The UBC Air Quality (AQ) Sensor project aims to build expendable particular matter sensors to profile wildfire smoke plumes. The sensors will be treated as radiosondes or dropsonde to make in-situ observations of PM [1, 2.5, 10] concentrations within a wildfire smoke plume. The sensor will be attached to a Windsond radiosonde instrument that measure the vertical profile of temperature, dew point, wind speed, and direction. Compiling the two instruments together will hopefully provide a much-needed dataset to aid in the evaluation of smoke plume rise modeling.

Woolsey Fire, November 9, 2018 Image credits US Forest Service/Public Domain

Contents:

• The Sensor
  • Components
  • Broadcast Data
• Code
  • PM Sensor (Transceiver)
  • Datalogger (Receiver)
• Static test
  • Load python modules and set inputs
  • read data for the RAMP
  • read data for the UBC pm sensors
  • Plot time series
  • Scatter plots
• Dynamic Test
  • Import OPC data!
  • Preliminary Results
  • Calibration

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

The Sensor