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foam line

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A body of foam placed along areas to be protected from fire; also used as an anchor for indirect attack in place of hand-made fire line.

ground truth

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Verification at the site of what has been observed and/or measured from aircraft, satellites, other aerial platforms, aerial photographs, or maps.

closed area

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An area in which specified activities or entry are temporarily restricted to reduce risk of human-caused fires or to mitigate the risk to human health or safety by potential or on-going wildland fires.

Shareable Content Object Re-usable Model (SCORM)

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A specification for standardizing the reusability and interoperability of learning content. SCORM has been developed by the Advanced Distributed Learning initiative (ADL). SCORM focuses on two critical pieces of learning content interoperability:

It defines an aggregation model for packaging learning content.
It defines an API for enabling communications between learning content and the system that launches it.

off-shift

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Non-compensable time, e.g., eating, sleeping or other activities of a personal nature.

deck

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The helibase operational area that includes the touchdown pad, safety circle, hover lanes, and external cargo transport area.

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