2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

agencies. Both the NASA-Dryden Ikhana
team and the NASA-Ames science sensor
team were successful in rapidly integrating,
supporting and flying emergency sorties
at least six-weeks prior to the original
team mission schedule. The missions
highlighted the agency’s ability to support
the disaster management community with
readily-adaptable data and information.
These missions are helping to foster
new collaborations between the State of
California and NASA, and to advance NASAderived
airborne technologies for operational
use within those agencies. The missions also
showcased the capabilities of autonomous
on-board sensor processing (development
of real-time Level 2 information products),
satellite data telemetry, and a Collaborative
Decision Environment (CDE) data
visualization tool. Each of these capabilities is
currently being used and integrated in various
stages with the major wildfire management
agency.
Vincent G. Ambrosia of NASA Ames is the
WRAP project Principal Investigator. Further
information on the WRAP project, specifically
the 2008 Northern California Ikhana fire
missions, can be found at: http://geo.arc.nasa.
gov/sge/WRAP.
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