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From the text... 'An ideal forest fire detection system would detect fires the instant they start, day or night, under any condition of visibility. Additionally, it could distinguish potentially dangerous fires from those that would not concern fire suppression forces. Although…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, remote sensing, smoke behavior, wildfires
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: adaptation, brush, brush fires, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, fire equipment, fuel types, gases, grass fires, grasses, moisture, ozone, particulates, pollution, sampling, wildfires