About Inexpensive Network Sensor Technology Exploring Pollution (INSTEP)
The Trace Gas GRoup (TGGR) is deploying a network of low-cost gas sensors based on a design from the Hannigan Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. The INSTEP monitors measure a variety of trace gases (CH4, HCHO, CO, CO2, NO2, O3) and will be placed around the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles areas. Red markers refer to a monitor placed on its own; blue dots indicate monitors co-located with remote sensing instruments for validation purposes. INSTEP will allow the Trace Gas GRoup (TGGR) to better characterize wildfire plumes at ground level.
Notable INSTEP Locations
- Co-located with Pandora spectrometers:
- UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station
- San Jose State University
- NASA Ames
- NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s Table Mountain Facility
- Co-located with TCCON:
- California Institute of Technology
- NASA Armstrong
- Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton
- Chabot Space & Science Center
- Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley
Contact: Kristen Okorn, Laura Iraci