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

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2021

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 (PM2.5), 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 helicopter ignitions of large stands comprising over 1,000 ha, allowing for comparison of same-species emission factors burned under different conditions. The use of a UAS for emission sampling minimizes risk to personnel and equipment, allowing flexibility in sampling location and ensuring capture of representative, fresh smoke constituents. PM2.5 emission factors varied 5-fold and, like most pollutants, varied inversely with combustion efficiency resulting in lower emission factors from the slash piles than the crown fires.

This dataset is associated with the following publication: Aurell, J., B. Gullett, A. Holder, F. Kiros, B. Mitchell, A. Watts, and R. Ottmar. Wildland Fire Emission Sampling at Fishlake National Forest, Utah Using an Unmanned Aircraft System. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 247: 118193, (2021).

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118193

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Metadata Created Date April 21, 2021
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2021

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Metadata Created Date April 21, 2021
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2021
Publisher U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
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Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
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