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

This data publication contains raw and georeferenced pre-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. Pre-fire aerial imagery was collected from a Canon©T3i mounted on a MLB Company SuperBat III unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) before the three burns on January 14, 2014. This data package contains five distinct georeferenced pre-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 pre-fire aerial imagery of the burn block area and surrounding fuel breaks and was acquired with an UAV. Select images of the burn blocks were georeferenced to allow for delineation of fuels or lack thereof, present on the study site. Vegetative fuels can affect fire behavior and are important inputs to fire models. Additionally, non-georeferenced images, outside the burns blocks, provide a visual description of the study area.
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).