FIREX-AQ: NAST-I Airborne Remote Sensing of Wildfire Emissions, 2019

Summer 2019 remotely sensed measurements collected by the NAST-I instrument onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during the FIREX-AQ campaign. The data provide critical fire information, including fire temperature, plume heights, and vegetation/soil albedo, to study the impact of North American fires on tropospheric chemistry and air quality. The campaign was a joint NOAA/NASA interagency study.

Use Cases

• Modeling fire plume rise and dispersion based on remotely sensed plume height and temperature data.
• Assessing satellite capabilities for fire detection and emission estimation based on airborne analog instrument data.
• Studying chemical transformation of wildfire emissions downwind based on trace gas and aerosol measurements.
• Relating fire emissions to fuel and fire conditions at the point of emission using detailed plume sampling.

Strengths

• Data collection is complete for the summer 2019 FIREX-AQ campaign.
• Provides critical fire information including fire temperature, plume heights, and albedo from 11 ER-2 flights.
• Part of a larger intensive study involving multiple aircraft, satellites, and ground-based instruments.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided in specialized formats (BIN, ISO, PDF, HTML) which may require specific tools for analysis.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Remotely sensed measurements collected by the NAST-I instrument onboard the ER-2 aircraft.

Time Range

Summer 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 02:48:49.555321; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North America, with flights originating from Boise, Idaho and Salina, Kansas.