Incident Name:
STATION (CA-ANF-3622)

IR Interpreter(s):
Scott Wilkinson

Local Dispatch Phone:
661-723-2592

Interpreted Size:      159,695 acres

Growth last period:  
(see notes below on acres)

Flight Time:        Flight Date:  
 
23:03 MDT                         09/10/2009

Interpreter(s) location: 
home office
Ouachita NF, AR
Interpreter(s) Phone:
501-538-5827

Regional Coordinator:
Kyle Felker                           Regional Coordinator Phone:

National Coordinator:
Tom Mellin/Barry Stern                               National Coordinator Phone: 
 208-859-4475 cell

Ordered By:
CA-ANF

Order Number:
A-319

Aircraft/Scanner System:
N144Z (Phoenix)

Pilots/Techs:
P:Dan J./Wendy 
T: Charles Kazimir ("Kaz")

IRIN Comments on imagery:
5 strips provided (ortho/color/tiff/raw heat/mosaic).  5^th strip was extra to cover Waterman Mt. better.  Imagery clear, very good.  No humidity/clouds.   System unable to produce .tiff and rawheat shapefile for strips 1-4, only .jpg

Weather at time of flight:
clear, dry

Flight Objective:
 map heat perimeter and spots

Date and Time Imagery Received by Interpreter:
09/10 23:45 PDT (single .zip from ground @ Ogden)

Type of media for final product: shapefiles of heat perimeter , isolated heat, scattered heat, heat  source  outside heat perimeter ;  11 x 17 .pdf map

Electronic file sent to:  ftp.nifc.gov/Incident Specific Data/CALIF_S/2009 fires/CA-ANF-3622%20Station/IR

Date and Time Imagery Delivered to Incident:
All heat shapefiles @ 04:45  PDT;   
11 x 17 .pdf @ 05:30  PDT

Comments /notes on tonight’s mission and this interpretation:  I used last night's IR perimeter (20090909_2338_Station_IR_heatperimeter) as the base for tonight's IR perimeter.  The 20090910 GIS Incident Data folder contained a geodatabase named "CA_ANF_Station_003622".     I extracted the "firepoly", but did not use it as my base because differences between it and my current IR perimeter which incorporates all past heat (see yesterday's log.   However I displayed the firepoly on the 11x17 pdf.   I also adjusted tonight's IR perimeter in the SW corner of the fire to match  this firepoly because it appeared to provide more detail of actual FIMT fireline location.    This deducted acres from the heat perimeter.   A few tiny expansions of the heat perimeter still resulted in a net acreage reduction of 169 acres in the IR heat perimeter.   

There was a malfunction in the Phoenix IR system that prevented the imagery for strips 1-4 being processed into .tiff files displayable in GIS , as well as prevented creation of the RawHeat shapefile for strips 1-4.   Within the area covered by the 5^th strip .tiff and rawdata files I was able to map the scattered heat, isolated heat sources outside the heat perimeter and also added the isolated heat within the perimeter.    Fortunately, strip 5 covered Mt. Wilson and the burnout of the line to Newcomb heliport, and north to the main perimeter.    This contained continuous, scattered heat of various intensities.    The separate heat polygon at Mt. Wilson is now continuous with this burnout area and the main perimeter.   There is one heat source outside the perimeter identified but it is within the area being burned out.   The only heat along the entire southern perimeter is minor amounts of isolated heat.   

Note :    The heat identified from strip 5 is all that is plotted on the 11x17 pdf.    The area of strips 1-4 is identified by the faded yellow box polygon.   I was able to contact the SITL at 5:30 and informed him of the problem and the state of the imagery and type of interpretation (called GIS and Plans multiple times between 4:45 and 5:30 PDT with no contact.   The SITL had been off yesterday, but I finally tried his phone at 5:30). 

The .jpg images of  strips 1-4 did include the un-geocorrected data strip, and the geo-corrected ortho and color files.    I had to plot hard copies of these, plus view them in MS Office Picture Manager, plus create a detailed base map with tonight's heat perimeter to attempt to visually verify the heat relative to the perimeter (ie - old school).    This was time consuming and it was unrealistic to attempt to map the heat in these 4 strips in time for briefing.    There were numerous isolated heat sources in the area between Twin Peaks, Three Points and Winston Ridge.   Nothing that would appear to be concentrated enough to map as "scattered heat", if I had the time to attempt it.    The north end of the unburned "donut hole" had perimeter growth with what would appear to be scattered heat.       

The IR perimeter from Twin Peaks south to Cogswell Reservoir appears very cool, all the way west into Devils Canyon.     Strip 5 covered the area from Cogswell Reservoir up to H6 helispot, and no heat was identified anywhere close to the perimeter. 

There continues to be very minor amounts of scattered heat elsewhere across the  (correction - WEST) 2/3 of the fire, and still looking very cool.    

Submitted 8:40 PDT
- Scott Wilkinson , IRIN