Abstract: A system for the detection of biological markers over a distributed area is disclosed. The system utilizes a fleet of mobile platforms, which are pseudo randomly distributed over a geographic region. The mobile platforms are equipped with an indexable air filter system, which captures samples of spores, pollen, or dust at discrete geographic or temporal nodes. The nodes are programmable, which allows both temporal and geographic data points to be linear, geometric, exponential or other non-linear modes that allows for unique analysis and data compression algorithms.