Innovations for the future; learning from the past
November 2 - 4, 2010 Hinton Training Centre, Hinton, Alberta, Canada
Presented at the 3rd International Wildland Fire Detection Workshop
The 2010 Wildland Fire Detection Workshop was the third in a series of workshops on fire detection organized by FPInnovations. The workshops take place at the Hinton Training Centre with the goal to bring Canadian and international wildland fire detection expertise together in one place; encouraging communications among participants; and providing ideas & innovations to create solutions for the issues affecting wildfire detection programs today, on every scale, and well into the future.
Innovations for the future; learning from the past
November 2 - 4, 2010 Hinton Training Centre, Hinton, Alberta, Canada
The 2010 Wildland Fire Detection Workshop was the third in a series of workshops on fire detection organized by FPInnovations. The workshops take place at the Hinton Training Centre with the goal to bring Canadian and international wildland fire detection expertise together in one place; encouraging communications among participants; and providing ideas & innovations to create solutions for the issues affecting wildfire detection programs today, on every scale, and well into the future.
In March of 2011 FPInnovations staff traveled to Rainbow Lake to create research plots in a prescribed burn unit. Work was conducted using a Gyrotrac GT-18 rotary mulcher, creating three ‘grid-mulched’ plots along with several ‘control’ lines. The grid-mulched areas are to evaluate their effectiveness as fuel reduction treatments, and the control lines were established to monitor their effect on fire behaviour. Work was completed over a three day period.
This was the fourth wildfire detection workshop/conference hosted by FPInnovations. The goal was to explore advancements and opportunities in wildfire detection.
The summer objective for the project was to collect temperature data from two aircraft from all fire related flights in BC during 2016. This presentation presents the trials, data, and results from this project.
