Ignition tracking data on prescribed fires at Ft. Stewart Army Base 2024

Ignition tracking data collected with Garmin GPS and Go Pro recorders for prescribed fire research. Ignitions for the Ft. Stewart 2024 prescribed burns were completed primarily with dragon eggs dropped from a helicopter, and the ground ignitions were completed with a terra torch attached to the back of a pickup truck. On the E11.5 burn unit the dragon ball hopper ran at the '2-Fast' speed setting until 15:04 Zulu time when the operator switched to '4-slow' speed setting for the remainder of that unit. On the E16 units the dragon ball hopper ran at the '4-slow' speed setting for the entire burn. The terra torch ignitions were used to set the black line, that is a line of fire set to have a backing fire burn a side of the unit that will "receive" the main ignitions by the helicopter. The remaining ignitions by the terra torch were used to "clean up/mop up" remaining areas around edges of the burn unit that did ignite due to local conditions (e.g. variability in the landscape).

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Last Updated July 4, 2025, 09:33 (UTC)
Created July 4, 2025, 09:33 (UTC)
Source https://wfsi-data.org/view/doi%3A10.60594/W44K5R
award Integrated research management team supporting SERDP/DoD Wildland Fire Initiative.
creators Derek Wallace, derek.wallace@usda.gov, U.S. Forest Service, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2533-4838 | Steven Flanagan, Steven.Flanagan@usda.gov, U.S. Forest Service
doi doi:10.60594/W44K5R
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funder U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) , http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013316
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harvest_source_title WIFIRE Commons
maintainor Derek Wallace, derek.wallace@usda.gov
method Go Pro 11's Calibration/Settings: 1. Time Zone: UTC-5. 2. Video Settings: Standard, Highest quality, Hyperview, 1x speed/low light. 3. Satellite Systems: GPS/GLONASS/GALILEO (this is standard for Go Pro 11, you don't have to set this). 4. Time format: 12 Hour 5. Time Zone: Automatically set after you set date and time manually, or automatically when you connect to the internet. 6. Position format: Decimal degrees.
project Funding Award RC20-7189: Integrated research management team supporting SERDP/DoD Wildland Fire Initiative.
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temporal {"endTime": "2024-02-10", "startTime": "2024-02-08"}