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AN: IN41A-0317    [Abstracts]
TI: Intelligent Mission Management for UAV Wildfire Response
AU: * Sullivan, D V
EM: donald.v.sullivan@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Ames Research Center Earth Science Division, MS 242-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035 United States
AU: Frost, C R
EM: chad.r.frost@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Ames Research Center Intelligent Systems Division, MS 269-102, Moffett Field, CA 94035 United States
AB: Multi-spectral sensor payload data is being intelligently processed on board an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle tasked with surveillance and mapping of wildfires during a 24-hour mission over the western United States. The resulting complete and finished data products are then delivered to Forest Service end users on the ground, in a directly usable format. In previous flights of similar sensors, the raw data was collected on board the aircraft; only after landing and post-processing the data would useable products be available. The delays associated with this process make intelligent on-board processing very compelling for any mission that requires near-real-time situational awareness and decision-making. Access to the data products is provided through a distributed client interface that is capable of presenting an integrated view of multiple disparate sets of geospatially correlated data, including position and flight plans of the UAV, maps and web-served map objects such as the MODIS satellite-based fire detections, and the data products delivered by the UAV payload. An additional result of the on-board processing capabilities developed for the instrument is being investigated under the Intelligent Mission Management project. Information describing wildfire heat detection will be used to actively guide the flight of the UAV; this 'payload-directed control' provides the ability to adaptively focus the attention of the UAV on the ground areas of greatest interest, thereby reducing the amount of irrelevant sensor data that must be processed.
UR: http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/imm
DE: 1632 Land cover change
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
DE: 1694 Instruments and techniques
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005