National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer (POPS)
instrumentairborne instrumentIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder
Description
Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer developed at NOAA CSL: a small, lightweight, low-power research-grade instrument that sizes and counts aerosol particles from 405 nm light scattering, flown on balloons, aircraft, UAS and the ISS.
Official page
https://csl.noaa.gov/groups/csl6/instruments/pops/
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Details
- Keywords
- aerosol size distribution, particle number concentration, light scattering, low-cost instrument, lightweight instrument
- Location
- place named in page text: Boulder
- Measurement band
- 405 nm
- Instrument platform
- ISS; balloon; aircraft; UAS
- Associated entity
- NOAA
- Deployment platform
- ISS; balloon; aircraft; UAS
- Specifications
- The instrument is a robust, small, lightweight, low-power consumption, and relatively low-cost research grade instrument that reports particle size and number concentration of aerosols with diameters… | POPS measures the scattered light from a 405 nm…