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VIDEO: Studying Wildfire Using Drones – Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) – Summer 2019

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A team of five DRI researchers, along with nearly 35 other scientists, embarked on a unique kind of camping trip this June. The group spent several days and nights in a remote area of central Utah’s Fishlake National Forest to do something that’s never been done before: to light 2000 acres of forest on fire and conduct the biggest prescribed fire experiment yet attempted.

Led by the U.S. Forest Service, the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) has been years in the making. Tim Brown, Ph.D., Research Professor of Climatology at DRI and Director of the Western Region Climate Center, began collaborating on the project with colleagues at the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station in 2013, with the idea of giving scientists the unprecedented opportunity to collect a range of data before, during, and after a large wildland fire.

Today, the project has evolved to bring together researchers from several universities and government agencies, including NASA and the EPA, in order to study fire from as many angles as possible, like the characteristics of the burning fuels, the chemistry of the smoke plume, fire behavior, and more.

Learn more about the project at DRI’s #BehindTheScience Blog.

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
March 27, 2020

Categories: Video, Video & Audio ResourcesTags: aerial imaging, aerial mapping, fire behavior modeling, Forest Management, Forest Restoration, forests, Model/Tool/Technology, Prescribed Fire, smoke modeling, USFS, Utah, wildfire

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