Ignition tracking data on prescribed fires at Fort Stewart Army Base 2025

Ignition tracking data collected with Garmin GPS units and Go Pro video recorders for prescribed fire research. Ignitions for the Ft. Stewart 2025 prescribed burns were completed primarily with dragon eggs dropped from a helicopter, and the ground ignitions were completed with a terra torch attached to the back of a pickup truck. On all burn units the dragon ball hopper (attached to the helicopter) operated at 4-slow along the black line created by the terra torch, and for the rest of each unit the hopper operated at 2-slow. I will look into specifics on the hopper drop rate, but from my observation 2-slow speed appears to drop dragon balls every second, and the 4-slow speed drops dragon balls every half second. The terra torch ignitions were used to set the black line, that is a line of fire set to have a backing fire burn a side of the unit that will "receive" the main ignitions by the helicopter.

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Last Updated	July 2, 2025, 21:53 (UTC)
Created	July 2, 2025, 21:53 (UTC)
Source	https://wfsi-data.org/view/doi%3A10.60594/W40W2G
award	Integrated research management team supporting SERDP/DoD Wildland Fire Initiative.
creators	Derek Wallace, derek.wallace@usda.gov, U.S. Forest Service, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2533-4838
doi	doi:10.60594/W40W2G
funder	U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013316
maintainor	Derek Wallace, derek.wallace@usda.gov
method	Go Pro 11's Calibration/Settings: 1. Time Zone: UTC-5. 2. Video Settings: Standard, Highest quality, Hyperview, 1x speed/low light. 3. Satellite Systems: GPS/GLONASS/GALILEO (this is standard for Go Pro 11, you don't have to set this). 4. Time format: 12 Hour 5. Time Zone: Automatically set after you set date and time manually, or automatically when you connect to the internet. 6. Position format: Decimal degrees.
project	Funding Award RC20-7189: Integrated research management team supporting SERDP/DoD Wildland Fire Initiative.
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temporal	{"endTime": "2025-04-18", "startTime": "2025-04-14"}