Characterizing the performance of a POPS miniaturized optical particle counter when operated on a quadcopter drone

• Main Authors: Liu, Zixia, Osborne, Martin, Anderson, Karen, Shutler, Jamie D., Wilson, Andy, Langridge, Justin, Yim, Steve Hung Lam, Coe, Huge, Babu, Suresh, Satheesh, Sreedharan K., Zuidema, Paquita, Huang, Tao, Cheng, Jack C. H., Haywood, James
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Southeast Atlantic; Air-Quality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153604
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We first validate the performance of the Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS), a small light-weight and high sensitivity optical particle counter, against a reference scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) for a month-long deployment in an environment dominated by biomass burning aerosols....