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Title:
Multi-scale analyses of wildland fire combustion processes: Small-scale field experiments – infrared data Data publication contains GIS data
Author(s):
Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Charney, Joseph J.; Clark, Kenneth L.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Hadden, Rory M.; Heilman, Warren E.; Hom, John L.; Kremens, Robert L.; Cole, Jason A.; Campbell-Lochrie, Zakary J.; Walker-Ravena, Carlos; Mueller, Eric V.; Everland, Alexis I.
Publication Year:
2022
How to Cite:
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Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Charney, Joseph J; Clark, Kenneth L.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Hadden, Rory M.; Heilman, Warren E.; Hom, John L.; Kremens, Robert L.; Cole, Jason A.; Campbell-Lochrie, Zakary J.; Walker-Ravena, Carlos; Mueller, Eric V.; Everland, Alexis I. 2022. Multi-scale analyses of wildland fire combustion processes: Small-scale field experiments – infrared data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0076
Abstract:
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) funded project: "Multi-scale Analyses of Wildland Fire Combustion Processes in Open-canopied Forests using Coupled and Iteratively Informed Laboratory-, Field-, and Model-based Approaches (RC-2641)" small-scale field experiments were designed to investigate how contrasting fuel conditions (e.g., fuel load, particle type, bulk density), fire spread type (e.g., heading vs. backing), and ambient conditions (e.g., seasonality, moisture, flow, temperature) influenced physical processes associated with combustion (e.g., heat transfer, flame propagation, flow) and the scale-dependent coupling of these processes. Additionally, these experiments provide 1) a linkage between small-scale laboratory combustion experiments and large-scale operational prescribed fires, and 2) archived datasets for further model development and evaluation. Our experimental design incorporates complementary approaches, methods, and instrumentation employed at these other scales, to quantify critical properties of the experimental fires’ physics domains (e.g., fuels and ambient conditions) and processes associated with combustion (e.g., heat transfer, flame propagation, flow). The small-scale field experiments include a series of highly instrumented, intermediate-scale experiments conducted on 100 square meter plots at the Silas Little Experimental Forest, New Lisbon, New Jersey.

This dataset contains data collected in the spring of 2018 and 2019 from a FLIR infrared video camera. Infrared (IR) data were collected using a FLIR infrared video camera (A655SC, FOL6 100.0-650.0 C lens; FLIR Systems Inc., Wilsonville, OR). The camera was mounted on the plot center tower 7.5 meters (m) and 9 m above the ground, depending on experiment, to provide a nadir view of the plot. Data were collected at 20 hertz using FLIR ResearchIR Max (Version 4.40.1.6) software. The raw data includes a sequence (SEQ) IR video file for each burn. The processed data includes a series of tables per burn in approximately 1 second (s) increments identifying pixels burning (temperatures above 300 degrees Celsius (°C)), and plot burn summaries for each burn identifying the count and percent of pixels burning per frame, count and percent of pixel ignitions per frame and pixel residence time (time (s) each pixel burned).

Keywords:
fire behavior; fire spread; combustion; computational fluid dynamics; aerodynamic drag; fuel structure and loading; heat flux; prescribed burn; prescribed fire; prescribed energy release; temperature; FLIR; infrared camera; infrared images; biota; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; environment; Fire; Fire suppression, pre-suppression; Smoke; Wildland/urban interface; Silas Little Experimental Forest; New Jersey; Burlington County; Pinelands National Reserve; PNR; Pine Barrens; NJPB; Pine Lands
Related publications:
  • Gallagher, Michael R.; Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Hadden, Rory M.; Mueller, Eric V.; Clark, Kenneth L.; Campbell-Lochrie, Zakary J.; Walker-Ravena, Carlos; Kremens, Robert L.; Everland, Alexis I.; Patterson, Matthew M.; Cole, Jason A.; Heilman, Warren E.; Charney, Joseph J.; Bian, Xindi; Mell, William E.; Hom, John L.; Im, Seong-kyun; Kiefer, Michael T.; Zhong, Shiyuan; Simeoni, Albert J.; Rangwala, Ali; Di Cristina, Giovanni. 2022. Multi-scale analyses of wildland fire combustion processes: Small-scale field experiments - plot layout and documentation. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0079
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