Camp Swift Fire Experiment 2014: Thermocouple rakes

This data publication contains thermocouple data 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. Each of the three burn blocks had four thermocouple rakes installed in pairs, end to end. Each rake had sixteen thermocouples installed. Measurements were obtained from before the fire front passed the rake until after the fire burned the entire burn block. Measurements were logged at 30 hertz (Hz). These data contain a feature class for each distinct thermocouple rake that recorded data at the Camp Swift Fire Experiment 2014. Some thermocouples were damaged and did not collect data as noted in the data quality section of the metadata.
The objective of the research burns was to create a dataset comprised of ground based and remote sensing measurements. There is a distinct dataset within this data publication for each thermocouple rake. This was the first deployment of this instrument and as such the deployment was experimental. The thermocouple rakes were aligned in a manner such that the hope was the head fire would pass through the instruments, perpendicularly. This arrangement was to examine the use of the instruments for measuring fire rate of spread. Other uses of the data could be possible but are not known at this time.
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).