Project
Use of a smoke generators and smoke plots to aid fire lookout personnel
Year
2005
status
Completed
Researcher
Dave Schroeder (Lead)
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Abstract
The Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) researched new methods of producing smoke for use in the training and testing of Alberta’s fire lookout personnel. Because Alberta’s goal is to have fires detected before they exceed 0.1 ha, two test burns were also done to see if
documenting smoke from 0.1 ha fires could help train lookouts.
