Abstract: Robust techniques for the collection, storage, and processing of data from disparate UAS data sources in an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations environment. A data-agnostic platform hosts a plurality of clients and client services. Baseline configurations and customizations are input to configure the platform for collection, retention, and/or processing of the data, and the client services are automatically configured based in part on those baseline configurations and customizations. Client services are logically arranged within each device memory as a plurality of operational groupings with a predetermined sequence order and a predetermined priority and executed according to the predetermined sequence order and predetermined priority. Data from the data sources is translated into customized data based at least, in part, on the configuration information, and validated for storage.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for the flameless premixed combustion of the pyrolysis gases of a milligram-sized sample of solid material in a microscale fire calorimeter (MFC) at high temperatures of combustion and under precisely controlled fuel-to-oxygen ratios. The microscale fire calorimeter (MFC) device and techniques set out herein provide for the generation of fuel gases from solids and the mixing of those fuel gases with oxygen under controlled conditions to obtain precise fuel/oxygen ratios during combustion. Combustion is conducted under flameless, premixed conditions in a rapid test that can generate soot and other products of incomplete combustion, which may then be analyzed to determine their type and nature. This allows for microscale, accurate, and convenient techniques for the generation and determination of the type and nature of combustion species produced over the full range of fire stages from early stage (over-ventilated) fires to late-stage (under-ventilated/high-toxicity) fires.