News
2024
Wildfires, driven by climate change, have become more intense and frequent, but scientists are still trying to understand larger patterns.
New York Times
Understanding the New Era of Fire
Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters.
New York Times
A Canadian Wildfire Grew So Intense It Made Its Own Weather
Urban Sky Microballoon pictured shortly after deployment near Breckenridge, Colorado. A Microballoon launch takes ~10 minutes, making this system a rapidly deployable, low-cost option to capture high-resolution, broad-area imagery.
The FireSense Implementation Team will work to further develop and design the FireSense use cases and support activities for implementation. The team will organize and work with stakeholder partners to identify potential projects that provide agile, short-term action on emerging needs from operational fire management agencies in the U.S.
NASA Science Mission Directorate
The NASA Science Mission Directorate announces the selection of 20 members for the FireSense Implementation Team.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) team prepared a Fire Science Day at Richfield Airbase for local high school and college students.
Fishlake National Forest
USFS-NASA in the Fishlake National Forest “2024 Look Book"
On May 21-23, 2024, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) visited NASA Ames Research Center, with participants representing 13 agencies and organizations.
Ames Earth Science Division
NASA Ames Hosts National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Fire and smoke researchers and land managers collaborated to "learn and burn" from a unique, high-intensity prescribed fire that was conducted to restore aspen forests on the Fishlake National Forest in Utah.
USDA|Forest Service
Learning and Burning FASMEE 2023
Learning and Burning FASMEE 2023
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The Fall 2023 flight campaign demonstrates the agency-wide nature of the FireSense Program, bringing together flight crews, instrument specialists, project managers, communications personnel, and scientists from NASA centers across the country
EXPLORE: Airborne Science Newsletter
FireSense: NASA’s Role in Improving Wildland Fire Management
NASA’s “Wildfire Digital Twin” project will equip firefighters and wildfire managers with a superior tool for monitoring wildfires and predicting harmful air pollution events and help researchers observe global wildfire trends more precisely.
NASA Science Editorial Team
NASA “Wildfire Digital Twin” Pioneers New AI Models and Streaming Data Techniques for Forecasting Fire and Smoke
The Camp Fire, which erupted 90 miles (140 kilometers) north of Sacramento, California, as seen from the Landsat 8 spacecraft, which was launched by NASA and operated by the U.S. Geological Survey.
NASA Headquarters
NASA Joins Group to Advance Wildfire Coordination, Capabilities
There is no single silver-bullet solution for the early detection of wildfires, according to leading meteorological experts. A toolbox of technologies including drones, ground-based sensors, satellites and AI models needs to be used to predict and monitor fires to save lives and protect infrastructure.
Meteorological Technology International
How are drones, satellites and AI models working together to predict fires and save lives?
2023
The prescribed burn moves slowly down the slope burning mostly non-native annual grasses in the southwest corner of Sedgwick Reserve.
Researchers from Rocky Mountain Research Station, Michigan Tech University, and Tall Timbers Research Station measure fuel moisture, fuel loading, and unburned vegetation.
Forest Service | USDA
Co-producing fire and smoke science
NASA invites students and employees of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to address the escalating challenges posed by wildfires and climate change
NASA MSI Incubator
NASA’s Wildfire Climate Tech Challenge competition has opened.
Jacquelyn Shuman (NASA ARC) and Roger Ottmar (USFS retired) talk to local students in Richfield, UT about how NASA aircraft and sensors can measure different aspects of wildland fires.
The Richfield Reaper
Forest Service, NASA teach science
At the start of October 2023, green conifers and golden aspen covered the slopes of Monroe Mountain in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Then, starting on October 9, these forests turned black as fire worked its way across the mountain. Flames and smoke were visible for miles.
Earth Observatoty
Making Fire Sense on Monroe Mountain
