Incident Name:
STATION (CA-ANF-3622)
	IR Interpreter(s):
Scott Wilkinson	Local Dispatch Phone:
661-723-2592	Interpreted Size:      160,531 acres

Growth last period:  
(see notes below on acres)	
Flight Time:        Flight Date:  
 
23:37 MDT                         09/11/2009  
	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-331	Aircraft/Scanner System:
N144Z (Phoenix)	Pilots/Techs:
P:Wendy/Don B. 
T: Woody Smith
	
IRIN Comments on imagery:
5 strips provided (ortho/color/tiff/raw heat/mosaic).  5th strip was extra to cover Waterman Mt. better.  Imagery clear, very good.  No humidity/clouds.      	Weather at time of flight:
clear, dry

	Flight Objective:
 map heat perimeter and spots	
Date and Time Imagery Received by Interpreter:
09/11 23:42 PDT(.zip ortho.tiff/raw heat/mosaic)
0912/2009 00:33 PDT (.zip color.tiff) 	Type of media for final product: shapefiles of heat perimeter , intense heat, isolated heat, scattered heat ;  11 x 17 .pdf (whole fire) , plus 11x17 .pdf (east end)

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 @ 04:37  PDT;   
11x17 .pdf @ 05:03  PDT ;
11x17 .pdf (east end) @ 05:23
		
Comments /notes on tonight’s mission and this interpretation:  I used last night's IR perimeter (20090910_2303_Station_IR_heatperimeter) as the base for tonight's IR perimeter.  The 20090911 GIS Incident Data folder contained a geodatabase named "CA_ANF_Station_003622".     I extracted the "firepoly", and it was identical to the firepoly contained in the geodatabase in the 20090910 folder.    As was the case yesterday, I  did not use it as my base because differences between it and my current IR perimeter which incorporates past heat (see yesterday's log).   However I did display the current FIMT firepoly on the 11x17 pdf.   

Due to the burnout operations east and west of Mt. Wilson,  tonight's IR heat perimeter has been enlarged to include the entire burnout, which is continuous from Eaton Saddle to the perimeter north of Newcomb helispot.   The burnout area contained intense, scattered and isolated heat sources (the isolated heat in this burnout area was not mapped).  
Other than this burnout area, there were no other increases in the heat perimeter last night due to actual new fire growth.
 
However, in order for tonight's heat perimeter to fully reflect the heat mapped over the past 14 days, I continued to make corrections and adjustments.    Some of these changes increased the perimeter to include heat areas previously mapped.  Some reduced the perimeter to delete areas added by FIMT perimeters where no heat had ever been found by NIROPS, or, where the FIMT perimeter appeared to have been corrected and more accurately mapped (where I had used a FIMT perimeter as a base, and reductions due to updates in the FIMT perimeter have since been made).
The only exception to this is a large area on the SE aspect of the west ridge of Twin Peaks.   My heat perimeter had followed the FIMT perimeter in this area since the night of 9/9/09.   But IR imagery has never showed any heat in this block.    I left the area in tonight's perimeter as precaution in case the area had been burned and so was mapped by FIMT, but possibly no heat registered due to light fuels or some other reason.  

Outside of the Mt. Wilson burnout, the only other scattered or intense heat was some very small pockets of scattered heat between Waterman Mt. and Winston Ridge.  

Tonight I mapped nearly all isolated heat sources (except in the far interior) between Bare Mt. on the far NE end of the fire, and "Crescenta" community on the south-central part of the fire.   This will hopefully give the FIMT a last "big picture" look at the density of heat on this more recently active east end of the fire.   

Refer to the extra 11x17 .pdf created for this east end of the fire, which is zoomed in about 2X, and more readable (if more accuracy/clarity is desired, the .pdf gives an excellent view when viewed and zoomed on the computer).

NOTE:  Tonight's IR continues to show several isolated heat sources NORTH of Winston Ridge, beyond the FIMT perimeter, but within and very near my expanded IR heat perimeter.   Refer back to the .pdf maps delivered on 9/08 and 9/09/2009, which clearly show intense and scattered heat spreading down the NE aspect of Winston Ridge.        

There continues to be very minor amounts of ISOLATED heat elsewhere across the WEST 2/3 of the fire, and still looking very cool.    These were not mapped beyond "Crescenta" west and around the the north side of the fire.

Submitted :     07:35 PDT
- Scott Wilkinson , IRIN   (501) 538-5827 cell

PS -   THIS IS MY LAST SHIFT.   I've enjoyed working with CIIMT 5.   I understand no IRIN replacement is scheduled because no further NIROPS IR flights are planned.     If you change your mind, we'll be there for you.