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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Southern California<br />
Post Fire Evaluation<br />
Following the 2007 fire mapping<br />
flights in Southern California with<br />
the Ikhana UAS, the <strong>Airborne</strong><br />
<strong>Science</strong> <strong>Program</strong> was tasked with<br />
collecting a time series of sciencegrade<br />
imagery to document the post-fire<br />
conditions at the various sites, and their<br />
subsequent recovery over the course of a<br />
year.<br />
<strong>Science</strong> Focus:<br />
Disaster Management<br />
Sponsors: S. Ambrose, <strong>NASA</strong> HQ<br />
D. Wickland, <strong>NASA</strong> HQ<br />
Location: California<br />
The MASTER sensor (MODIS/ASTER<br />
<strong>Airborne</strong> Simulator) was flown on a U.S.<br />
Dept. of Energy B-200 aircraft over the 14<br />
major fire sites beginning immediately after<br />
the fires were extinguished in November,<br />
2007. Repeat collections were performed<br />
in April of <strong>2008</strong> following the spring rains,<br />
and again during the August dry period, to<br />
capture the maximum and minimum soil<br />
moisture conditions over the course of one<br />
season. Funded by the Earth <strong>Science</strong> Division<br />
R&A <strong>Program</strong> (Simon Hook, Project Scientist)<br />
this effort encompassed a total of 238 flight<br />
lines and over 3,000 miles of MASTER data.<br />
Researchers at JPL have performed some<br />
initial analysis on this unique and extensive<br />
data set (over 130 Gbytes,) which is intended<br />
to support a variety of studies related to<br />
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