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).

本数据发布包含在德克萨斯州巴斯特罗普县Camp Swift军事基地于2014年1月15日进行的预定火灾研究项目中收集的热电偶数据。2014年Camp Swift火灾实验由三个在100米（m）×100米的燃烧地块上于2014年1月15日点燃的火灾组成。火灾在相对平坦的草地植被区域以及中等风速下被点燃。每个燃烧地块均安装了四对热电偶耙，耙子首尾相接。每个耙子装有十六个热电偶。测量数据从火前锋通过耙子之前开始，直至火完全烧毁整个燃烧地块之后结束。测量数据以30赫兹（Hz）的频率进行记录。这些数据包含每个记录Camp Swift火灾实验数据的独立热电偶耙的特征类别。部分热电偶损坏，如元数据中的数据质量部分所述，未收集到数据。研究燃烧的目标是创建一个包含地面和遥感测量的数据集。本数据发布中包含每个热电偶耙的独立数据集。这是该仪器的首次部署，因此部署具有实验性质。热电偶耙的排列方式旨在期望主火能够垂直穿过仪器。这种安排是为了检验仪器在测量火灾蔓延速度方面的应用。数据可能的其它用途虽未明确，但亦存在可能性。Camp Swift项目的概述可以在完整数据下载的补充材料中找到（见Supplements CampSwiftFireExperiment2014_Project_Overview.pdf）。此外，美国森林服务ArcGIS Online互动网站也被开发出来，以描述该研究并检验Camp Swift项目的数据综合质量（参见以下交叉引用）。最后，一个详细说明设置燃烧地块所采用程序的文档可以在完整数据下载的补充材料中找到（见SupplementsCampSwiftFireExperiment2014_BurnBlockDesign.pdf）。