Smoke Sky -- Exploring New Frontiers of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Wildland Fire Science and Applications
Wildfire has had increasing impacts on society as the climate changes and the wildland urban interface grows. As such, there is a demand for innovative solutions to help manage fire. Managing wildfire can include proactive fire management such as prescribed burning within constrained areas or advancements for reactive fire management (e.g., fire suppression). Because of the growing societal impact, the JPL BlueSky program sought to assess the current state of fire management and technology and determine areas with high return on investment. To accomplish this, we met with the national interagency Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Advisory Group (UASAG) and with leading technology transfer experts for fire science and management applications. We provide an overview of the current state as well as an analysis of the impact, maturity and feasibility of integrating different technologies that can be developed by JPL. Based on the findings, the highest return on investment technologies for fire management are first to develop single micro-aerial vehicle (MAV) autonomy, autonomous sensing over fire, and the associated data and information system for active fire local environment mapping. Once this is completed for a single MAV, expanding the work to include many in a swarm would require further investment of distributed MAV autonomy and MAV swarm mechanics, but could greatly expand the breadth of application over large fires. Important to investing in these technologies will be in developing collaborations with the key influencers and champions for using UAS technology in fire management.
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