Spatial mapping and analysis of aerosols during a forest fire using computational mobile microscopy

Yichen Wu; Ashutosh Shiledar; Yi Luo; Jeffrey Wong; Cheng Chen; Bijie Bai; Yibo Zhang; Miu Tamamitsu; Aydogan Ozcan

doi:10.1117/12.2288889

13 February 2018 Spatial mapping and analysis of aerosols during a forest fire using computational mobile microscopy

Yichen Wu, Ashutosh Shiledar, Yi Luo, Jeffrey Wong, Cheng Chen, Bijie Bai, Yibo Zhang, Miu Tamamitsu, Aydogan Ozcan

Proceedings Volume 10485, Optics and Biophotonics in Low-Resource Settings IV; 104850T (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288889
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Forest fires are a major source of particulate matter (PM) air pollution on a global scale. The composition and impact of PM are typically studied using only laboratory instruments and extrapolated to real fire events owing to a lack of analytical techniques suitable for field-settings. To address this and similar field test challenges, we developed a mobilemicroscopy- and machine-learning-based air quality monitoring platform called c-Air, which can perform air sampling and microscopic analysis of aerosols in an integrated portable device. We tested its performance for PM sizing and morphological analysis during a recent forest fire event in La Tuna Canyon Park by spatially mapping the PM. The result shows that with decreasing distance to the fire site, the PM concentration increases dramatically, especially for particles smaller than 2 µm. Image analysis from the c-Air portable device also shows that the increased PM is comparatively strongly absorbing and asymmetric, with an aspect ratio of 0.5–0.7. These PM features indicate that a major portion of the PM may be open-flame-combustion-generated element carbon soot-type particles. This initial small-scale experiment shows that c-Air has some potential for forest fire monitoring.

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Yichen Wu, Ashutosh Shiledar, Yi Luo, Jeffrey Wong, Cheng Chen, Bijie Bai, Yibo Zhang, Miu Tamamitsu, and Aydogan Ozcan "Spatial mapping and analysis of aerosols during a forest fire using computational mobile microscopy", Proc. SPIE 10485, Optics and Biophotonics in Low-Resource Settings IV, 104850T (13 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288889

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