Image from a UAS acquired natural-color video showing the UAS-mounted Kolibri sensor being flown in Alaska

Image from a UAS acquired natural-color video showing the UAS-mounted Kolibri sensor being flown through the smoke plume during one of the in-situ oil burns at a Poker Flat Research Range retention pond in Alaska.

In August 2022 the NUSO flew UAS mounted with the Kolibri, a smoke particle sampling payload being developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to capture smoke plume concentrations and behavior to serve as input data for dispersion modeling by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).