The University of South Florida will receive $250,000 under a Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to develop the Burned Area Monitoring System (BAMS). BAMS will utilize passive wireless tracers and smart wireless interrogation to collect soil displacement, temperature, and moisture data from post-wildfire landscapes through December 2025. The soil monitoring data gathered by BAMS aims to support model development and validation for assessing post-fire landslide and debris flow risks in temperate climate burned areas. BAMS employs a highly asymmetric design with low-cost, biodegradable passive tracers monitored by a small number of interrogators to dynamically adapt sensing needs through machine learning. The project aims to advance in situ monitoring capabilities for post-wildfire landscapes through this cost-effective, environmentally-benign soil monitoring system.
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