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Infrared as a fire control tool

Late in 1961 the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory initiated a fire detection research program. The primary objective of this program is the development of a system capable of detecting both man-caused and lightning-caused fires day or night through all normally encountered…
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Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: conservation, fire control, lightning caused fires, Montana, photography, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke management, spot fires