Researchers from the Wildfire Operations Research group went to FPInnovations’ western division office in Vancouver, BC to meet with the researcher/developer of FPSuite™. FPSuite is an integrated process control platform that tracks the performance of forest ground equipment to improve the efficiency and reduce the costs of forest operations. Because the system is based on the same philosophy as the helicopter bucket tracking software we intend to evaluate, researchers wanted to learn about FPSuite’s operational capabilities and use this information to help develop the evaluation procedure for the helicopter bucket tracking software.