June 21, 2010
LA County
Pleading for Missile Warning Satellites to Track Wildfires
In a recent study, the Los Angeles County Quality and
Productivity Commission reported on the feasibility of using
satellite systems for early detection of fires and pilot tests
in Los Angeles County including surveillance satellite and
ground-based sensor technology systems,
VIEW REPORT.
An article in the June 21, 2010 issue of Space News reviewed
some aspects of the Integrated Hazard Information System
(Hazard Support System) that is referenced in the LA County
Report; see
Space News article (.pdf) |
July 16, 2008
On July 15, 2008 the San Jose Mercury News published an article
titled "Firefighters enlist eye in
the sky - Governor lauds mapping work by NASA drone".
This article documented CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's July
14th visit to the NASA Ames Research Center. Richard
Davies, the Executive Director of the WDC, submitted a "letter
to the editor" of the Mercury News addressing his frustration
that this article emphasized the UAV aspects of the research not
NASA's outstanding development of a practical wildfire remote
sensing and data management system. To view the original
Mercury News article, the "as published letter to the editor"
and the "as submitted letter to the editor",
 click
here...
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July 11, 2008
Let's Learn From This ! - The California Wildfires of
June/July 2008, Stephen P. Skinner,
click
here ...
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May 10, 2008
It is time to try again - Integrated Hazard Information System
(Hazard Support System)
The Western
Disaster Center Institute for Wildfire Policy and Technology
believes that the mothballing of the Integrated Hazard
Information System (Hazard Support System) in 2000 was short
sighted and that, at a minimum, research should continue to
develop and apply U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community space based
reconnaissance capabilities for wildfire detection and monitoring,
To
read the WDC position paper on the Integrated Hazard Information
System ,
click
here...
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Project WILDFIREIn 1997 the Western Disaster
Center, with grant funding from the California Highway to Space program,
organized a technology demonstration intended to demonstrate how evolving
remote sensing, communications and geospatial technologies could improve the
wildfire response mission. This Project WILDFIRE demonstration
occurred in June 1997.
This paper "An Integration
of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Information Distribution for Wildfire Detection
and Management" was published in the American Society of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing -- PE&RS Journal, Vol. 64, No. 10, October 1998.
The paper was the 1999 ERDAS Award Winner for Best Scientific Paper in
Remote Sensing -- the highest recognition for articles published in PE&RS.
Many thanks to the Project WILDFIRE team and special kudos to Vince Ambrosia
who was with Johnson Controls at the NASA Ames Research Center when this
paper was
prepared for his efforts in organizing and editing this paper.
To download a paper
summarizing the remote sensing and geospatial aspects of the Project
WILDFIRE demonstration (Acrobat .pdf / this is a large file 3.4MB),
click
here...
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The Evils of Wildfires Could be a Blessing in Disguise,
Stephen P. Skinner,
click
here...
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Town Hall Meeting Discussion,
Stephen P. Skinner,
click
here...
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