2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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California Fire<br />
Emergency<br />
Response<br />
<strong>Science</strong> Focus:<br />
Applied <strong>Science</strong>, Disaster Management<br />
and <strong>Airborne</strong> <strong>Science</strong><br />
Sponsor: S. Ambrose & A. Roberts, <strong>NASA</strong> HQ<br />
Location: California<br />
The <strong>2008</strong> Northern California Fire<br />
Emergency Response Missions<br />
were a major component of<br />
the Western States UAV Fire<br />
Mission – <strong>2008</strong>. The mission<br />
efforts were supported by the Applied<br />
<strong>Science</strong>s and the <strong>Airborne</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>Program</strong>s<br />
at <strong>NASA</strong> Headquarters. The focus of the<br />
<strong>NASA</strong> effort was to support technology<br />
demonstration missions and infusion with<br />
fire management agencies, such as U.S. Forest<br />
Service and CalFire.<br />
At the request of the <strong>NASA</strong> Applied<br />
<strong>Science</strong>s program, the Wildfire Research and<br />
Applications Partnership (WRAP) project<br />
team developed a <strong>2008</strong> plan for providing<br />
emergency wildfire information to fire<br />
agencies during the wildfire season (summer<br />
and fall). <strong>NASA</strong> and FEMA committed to<br />
funding approximately 60 flight hours on<br />
the Ikhana UAS to support emergency data<br />
collection operations with the AMS-Wildfire<br />
instrument. The AMS-Wildfire instrument<br />
was developed to demonstrate autonomous<br />
operations of remote sensing data collection<br />
and processing of real-time (Level 2)<br />
products from the on-board processors<br />
accompanying the instrument. The AMS-<br />
Wildfire sensor was configured with critical<br />
spectral regions to define hot temperature<br />
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