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Morphological Characterization and Classification of Aerosol Aggregates through Multispectral Light Scattering Simulations
STEPHEN HOLLER, Jaeda Mendoza, Emily Shipley, Sequoyah Waters, Kevin Aptowicz, Fordham University
Abstract Number: 661
Working Group: Bioaerosols
Abstract
Light scattering from non-spherical particles and aggregates produces complex speckle patterns that result from interference among the constituent particles. Experimental results have indicated that information contained within the two-dimensional speckle pattern is related to morphological characteristics of the aerosol, which can be used for the classification of the particles. We performed a series of multispectral light scattering simulations to control for the aggregate parameters to better understand the influence of the morphological characteristics on the speckle pattern and how those same descriptors could be employed to classify the particles. This talk will focus on the descriptors and their relation to the simulated aggregates and how one may use the multispectral information for classifying various particle types, including those of biological origin.