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The US Forest Service Missoula Technology & Development Center has evaluated many real-time particulate monitors in both the laboratory and field location. You can read more about these evaluations in the following documents:

 

Laboratory Evaluation of Two Optical Instruments for Real-Time Particulate Monitoring of Smoke (673kb)
 

Evaluation of Optical Instruments for Real-Time Continuous Monitoring of Smoke Particulates (2.95mb)
 

Real-Time Smoke Particulate Sampling: Fire Storm 2000 (1.04mb)
In addition to those references, a Users Guide for operation and setup of the DataRam and telemetry system is also available.
 

DataRAM4 Particulate Monitor; Forest Service User's Guide (295kb)