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