Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45, 666–672
Optical Remote Sensing to Quantify Fugitive Particulate Mass Emissions from Stationary Short-Term and Mobile Continuous Sources: Part II. Field Applications KE DU* Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China WANGKI YUEN, WEI WANG, AND MARK J. ROOD Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, 205 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois 61820, United States RAVI M. VARMA Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Calicut 673601, India RAM A. HASHMONAY ENVIRON, 88 VilCom Circle, Suite 185, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, United States BYUNG J. KIM AND MICHAEL R. KEMME U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 2902 Newmark Dr., Champaign, Illinois 61826-9005, United States
Received June 4, 2010. Revised manuscript received October 15, 2010. Accepted November 14, 2010.
Quantification of emissions of fugitive particulate matter (PM) into the atmosphere from military training operations is of interest by the United States Department of Defense. A new range-resolved optical remote sensing (ORS) method was developed to quantify fugitive PM emissions from puff sources (i.e., artillery back blasts), ground-level mobile sources (i.e., movement of tracked vehicles), and elevated mobile sources (i.e., airborne helicopters) in desert areas that are prone to generating fugitive dust plumes. Real-time, in situ mass concentration profiles for PM mass with particle diameters
