Fighting the wildfires with a NASA UAV and Google Earth

Posted by David Pescovitz, October 26, 2007 2:06 PM |
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Todd Lappin of Telstar Logistics writes, "It's the ultimate fire-fighting mashup: This week NASA joined forced with the FAA and the US Forest Service to field a civilian version of the Predator UAV over Southern California. The drone aircraft has combined infrared thermal imagery with Google Earth location data to map critical fire hotspots so incident commanders know where best to direct their resources." Link
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#1 posted by mdhatter Author Profile Page, October 27, 2007 12:01 PM

when do we get an unmanned aerial hunter-killer water tanker?

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