The FireSense Project, a collaboration between the NASA Earth Science Division and various partners, recently completed an airborne campaign in Missoula, MT.
The campaign aimed to fill the measurement gap in understanding fire behavior by using the Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) to provide localized forecasting.
During the campaign, a NASA UAS team conducted eight data-collection flights and partnered with weather balloon launches.
The campaign evaluated the impact of real-time data on fire weather forecasts and served as a trial for interagency coordination between NOAA and U.S. Forest Service UAS pilots.