Objectives: Demonstrate capabilities of UAS to overfly and collect sensor data on wildfires throughout Western US. Demonstrate long-endurance mission capabilities (20+ hours). Image multiple fires (greater than 4 fires per mission), to showcase extendable mission configuration and ability to either linger over key fires or station over disparate regional fires. Deliver real-time imagery to (within 10-minutes of acquisition).


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    Title :

    Large UAS Operations in the NAS - The NASA 2007 Western States Fire Missions (WSFM)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integrated, and Operations Conference (ATIO) ; 2008 ; Anchorage, AK, United States
    26th ICAS meeting ; 2008 ; Anchorage, AK, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-09-14


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English