The Altair Western States Fire Mission teamed NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) (Edwards, California), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) (Moffett Field, California) and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) (San Diego, California) with the USDA Forest Service to demonstrate the capability to use an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) as a wildfire remote sensing platform. The experiment demonstrated the combined use of a NASA ARC-designed thermal multispectral scanner integrated on a large payload capacity UAV, a satellite image data telemetry system, near-real-time image georectification, and rapid Internet data dissemination to fire center and disaster managers. The flight demonstrations were conducted in September and October of 2006, as seen in figure 1. Two days after the research effort had been completed, the Governor of California requested emergency support for remote sensing over the Esperanza fire south of Beaumont, California. The entire team responded to the request to execute an extremely effective operational fire mission. This required completely reinstalling the fire pod and rewiring the Altair aircraft, planning the mission and requesting and receiving an emergency Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS.)


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    Title :

    Altair Western States Fire Mission


    Contributors:
    J. Willhite (author) / R. Navarro (author) / B. Cobleigh (author)

    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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