FIREX-AQ S-HIS: Fire Plume Remote Sensing from ER-2 Aircraft, 2019

Remotely sensed measurements collected by the Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during the 2019 FIREX-AQ campaign. The campaign was a NOAA/NASA interagency study of North American fires to understand the impact of fire emissions on tropospheric chemistry and air quality. The ER-2 payload provided critical fire information, including fire temperature, plume heights, and vegetation/soil albedo.

Use Cases

• Validate satellite fire detection algorithms based on high-resolution aircraft remote sensing data.
• Model plume rise and dispersion based on measured fire temperature and plume height information.
• Study the chemical transformation of wildfire emissions downwind based on trace gas and aerosol measurements.
• Assess the impact of fire emissions on regional air quality based on integrated campaign data.

Strengths

• Data collection is complete for the 2019 FIREX-AQ campaign.
• Part of an intensive interagency study (NOAA/NASA) with coordinated aircraft, satellite, and ground-based measurements.
• The ER-2 payload included 8 satellite analog instruments providing critical fire parameters.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Remotely sensed measurements collected by the S-HIS instrument onboard the ER-2 aircraft.

Time Range

Summer 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 02:57:59.714661; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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