Camp Swift Fire Experiment 2014: Post-fire unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery

This data publication contains raw and georeferenced post-fire aerial imagery collected as part of a prescribed fire research campaign conducted at the Camp Swift Military Base in Bastrop County, Texas on January 15, 2014. The Camp Swift Fire Experiment 2014 consisted of three fires ignited in burn blocks of dimensions 100 meters (m) by 100 m on January 15, 2014. Fires were ignited on relatively flat areas of grass vegetation in moderate winds. Post-fire aerial imagery was collected from a Canon©T3i mounted on a MLB Company SuperBat III unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) after completion of the three burns. This data package contains five distinct georeferenced post-fire images and one mosaiced image of these five distinct images covering the three burn blocks.
The objective of the research burns was to create a dataset comprised of ground based and remote sensing measurements. The dataset referenced here represents post-fire aerial imagery of the burn block area and surrounding fuel breaks and was acquired with an UAV. This imagery was collected to portray post-fire conditions within the three Camp Swift burn blocks. Select images of the burn blocks were georeferenced to allow for delineation of fuels or lack thereof, present on the study site. Also, this post-fire imagery also portrays the location of field sampled vegetation conditions for threeawn, which is not portrayed in the raw or georeferenced pre-fire imagery.
A summary of the Camp Swift project can be found in the full data download (\Supplements\ CampSwiftFireExperiment2014_Project_Overview.pdf). A United States Forest Service ArcGIS Online interactive website is also developed to describe the study and examine the integrated data quality for the Camp Swift effort (see cross reference below). Finally, a document detailing the procedures used to set up the burn blocks can be found in the full data download (\Supplements\CampSwiftFireExperiment2014_BurnBlockDesign.pdf).