USDA Forest Service - NASA Ames Spring 2006 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Demonstration
The Forest Service is seeking sources capable of providing a small unmanned aerial system (UAS) to support a demonstration which shall consist of, at minimum, a single one hour flight for each participant. The goal of the evaluation is to conduct an assessment during actual wildfire conditions of small UAS platforms with incorporated thermal sensors. The fully field deployable systems will downlink geo-located thermal imagery of the active fire perimeter and hotspots within the confines of the demonstration site: Fort Hunter Liggett Garrison in central California. The participant aircraft will be flying at night over controlled burn fires, and must be equipped to handle these conditions. This field demonstration will be conducted over a 3 day period in the early spring 2006 timeframe.
![[Photograph]: Cessna Citation and Forest Service Employees Making Fire Maps.](../images/arch_plain_field.gif)
