RxCADRE 2011 and 2012: Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program orthorectified and calibrated long wave infrared images

The Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE) was designed to collect atmospheric, fuels, fire behavior, energy balance, emissions, and fire effects data to evaluate and advance fire models and further our understanding of fire science questions. This data package contains geometrically rectified and radiometrically calibrated raw long wave infrared (LWIR) images collected with the Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program (WASP) sensor at Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Florida in longleaf pine (Pinus palustrus) ecosystems of the southeastern USA as part of the RxCADRE project. The LWIR images quantify ground-leaving exitance released during five operational surface fires that burned in forested burn blocks in 2011 (608A and 703C), non-forested burn blocks (L1G and L2G), and a forested burn block in 2012 (L2F). Images are available every 4 seconds for the 2011 burns and every three seconds for the 2012 burns within each aircraft pass over a burn block.The purpose was to acquire LWIR imagery to record the fire spread and radiative heat release at frequent intervals during prescribed fires. Pixel values are calibrated to Fire Radiative Flux Density (FRFD) in units of watts per square meter (Dickinson and Kremens 2015). Integrating the calibrated pixel values over the whole time series provides a measure of Fire Radiative Energy Density (FRED) in units of kiloJoules per square meter following Hudak et al. 2016.A short summary of the RxCADRE project can be found in the full data publication download (\Supplements\RxCADRE_Project_Overview.pdf). Information about the RxCADRE project can also be found here: https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/research/rxcadre/. Original metadata date 03/21/2016. On 5/31/2016 a typo in the title was corrected. Minor metadata updates on 12/15/2016.