FTS Video library
Enter the category for this item: Company Information
FTS Corporate Profile
A brief look at who we are and what we do. (5:30)
Enter the category for this item: Application specific
A Prescription for Success: On Site Weather Conditions with Portable RAWS
FTS presents an in-depth look at the practice of prescribed burning—its value to helping the environment and to forest management agencies in preventing wildfires. It also explores the crucial role that having accurate, on-demand weather conditions via a portable Remote Automated Weather Station like the FTS QD "Quick Deploy" plays in allowing the US Forest Service to burn more land, and keep fire crews and the public safe. (13:59)
Oakland's FTS RAWS stations help predict and monitor fires
“We can now see patterns and trends that one station wouldn’t really give us, but that the network does provide,” says East Bay Regional Parks Fire Department Assistant Chief John Swanson. “A better understanding of those patterns and trends may have helped us in 1991.”
FTS RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Stations) represent one of the biggest advancements in fire preparedness since the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire raged through the area now monitored by the new stations. A national RAWS network existed before 1991, but there were no stations in the Bay Area. The Oakland Fire Department now owns two stations, installed in 1994 and 1995. The East Bay Regional Parks District owns four stations, all installed in 1995.
Swanson said the data from this network of stations could have helped predict the surprising behavior of the 1991 fire. (1:44)
Enter the category for this item: How-To
RAWS Upgrade Training
How to upgrade an obsolete RAWS to a state-of-the-art FTS RAWS, from disassembly to configuring a new Axiom datalogger. (28:40)
Download the video to play on your computer—right click and choose "Save target as..." (512.7MB, WMV)
Download the accompanying training guide (1MB, PDF)
