Incident Name: Sapphire Complex* Goat Creek [not flown] Slide Rock [not flown] Little Hogback MT-LNF-001463	IR Interpreter(s): Lauren Miller laurenmiller@fs.fed.us	Local Dispatch Phone: Missoula Dispatch Center 406.829.7070	Interpreted Size: 34,102 Acres (Little Hogback only) Growth last period: 1,403 Acres (Little Hogback only)
Flight Time: 0146 MDT Flight Date: 9/04/2017	Interpreter(s) location: Bend, OR Interpreter(s) Phone: 541-408-6551	GACC IR Liaison: Tim Stauffer GACC IR Liaison Phone: 406-529-6366	National Coordinator: Jan Johnson National Coord. Phone: 208-387-5900
Ordered By: SITL: Glenn Palmgren 517-672-6278 northidahoimt@gmail.com	A Number: A-85	Aircraft/Scanner System: N144Z/Phoenix	Pilots/Techs: Kaz (IR Tech) Don / Johnson (Pilots)
IRIN Comments on imagery: 2 strips. Good quality.	Weather at time of flight Clear	Flight Objective: Map heat perimeter, intense, scattered, and isolated heat
Date and Time Imagery Received by Interpreter: 09/04/2017 @ 0230 MDT	Type of media for final product: PDF map, KMZ, IR log and shapefiles Digital files sent to: ftp.nifc.gov/incident_specific_data/n_rockies/2017_fires/2017_Sapphire_Complex/IR/20170904
Date and Time Products Delivered to Incident: IR Products 09/04/2017 @ 0500 MDT
Comments /notes on tonight’s mission and this interpretation: *The incident decided to shift to every other night IR for the Goat Creek and Slide Rock fire effective 20170902. Tonight IR was supposed to be flown for all three fires that comprise the Sapphire Complex however, the Goat Creek and Slide Rock fires were not flown due to aircraft time/fuel limitations. I began with yesterday’s IR perimeter for Little Hogback (20170902 2304 hrs) per instructions from Incident GISS. This file had Little Hogback mapped at 32,699 acres. This fire continues to grow, primarily along the southern perimeter above Highway 102 and along the northern perimeter in Cub Gultch near Ranch Creek. There is intense heat in these area as well. It was difficult to determine if the grassy east-facing slope on The Wedge should be included in the main fire perimeter. There was a lot of intense heat surrounding this area and so it was unclear if there really was residual heat or if there was just an artifact in the imagery. There is scattered heat throughout most of the perimeter and adjacent to all flanks except the eastern. Interior islands continue to consume. Please let me know if there are any questions, comments or requests for additional IR products. Thank you. Note that there seems to be some issue with editing, specifically reshaping (all other editing tasks work fine), shapefiles that originate from the Incident gdb. I suspect that it has something to do with the ArcMap’s WGS1984 to NAD83UTM11 conversation because if you change the dataframe to Nad83TransverseMercator, editing problems no longer exist. Big big thanks to Bob Brantlinger for figuring this out. He has similar issue with Incident shapefiles in the webmercator projection.