Launchpad: NASA Technologies Helping Firefighters

Description

Learn how firefighters detect wild fires. Ikhana is an Unmanned Aerial System, or UAS, used to take images through smoke and haze in order to detect hot spots and changes in temperature.

Published on: June 22, 2009

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Keywords

Aeronautics, Ikhana; firefighters; wildfires; UAS; unmanned aerial vehicles; UAV, remotely operated vehicles, NASA, eClips, NIA, Launchpad, High School, science, technology, engineering, math, STEM, education, video, infrared, thermal, fire fighters, maps,