Task 1 Assessment of Wind Erosion Potential of Off-road Vehicle Activity

1. Task 1 Assessment of Wind Erosion Potential of Off-road Vehicle Activity Task 3a Improved Technologies For Active Fence-line Monitoring of Fugitive Dust Emissions Task 1a Pre & Post military vehicle traffic site susceptibility survey on undisturbed off-road sites Optical & soil physical properties measurements • Adapt/test WINDPOD for SERDP monitoring • Define system requirements • Full system conceptual design Task 1b Laboratory wind tunnel experiments on samples obtained from Task 1a disturbed and undisturbed sites Task 1c Ongoing soil and vegetation recovery survey of disturbed sites selected from Task 1a Fabricate and bench test a WINDPOD unit DRI/PNNL joint field test exercise Large area, in situ, size segregated measurement of particle deposition dynamics • Field test and calibrate WINDPOD at an existing DRI campaign site using • Aglite (primary calibration standard) • Transmissometer (secondary standard) Task 1d Update WEPS management module and operation database for off-road vehicle traffic EXIT CRITERIA: Working demonstration unit of an eye-safe fence-line monitor SISON Objective Served: 3a EXIT CRITERIA: Updated WEPS model for military vehicle traffic input Wind erosion susceptibility parameters for use in WEPS SISON Objective Served: 1a SISON-10-03 Objectives Served: 1a and 3a