Airborne Campaigns
NASA’s FireSense Project conducts airborne observations over wildland fires and prescription burn areas to evaluate and test new instrumentation and collect both remotely-sensed and in situ data that can inform management decisions and improve fire models. The FireSense project is focused on four uses-cases to improve wildfire management. These include the measurement of pre-fire fuels conditions, active fire dynamics, post fire impacts and threats, as well as air quality forecasting, each co-developed with identified wildfire management agency stakeholders. Starting in the fall of 2023, FireSense will have an annual airborne component where the project will test and develop improved capabilities and technologies for transfer to stakeholders. A larger airborne campaign will take place during year five of the project (2027-2028) to fully demonstrate the technology developed during FireSense.
Data from the FireSense campaigns will be stored in a FireSense data repository developed by FireSense Implementation Team members at NASA Langley. The platform supports storage for documents, text delimited files (csv), geospatial data (point/polygon, geotiff, netcdf, laz,), as well as providing password protection on a government system. This is the same data system that supports other NASA airborne campaigns, including the FIREX-AQ project.
