's BlogIKHANA UAV Took Off
The Ikhana unmanned vehicle took-off from NASA-DFRC / Edwards AFB at 2:34:45 PM PDT. Mission is planned for nominal 17-hour mission to fires in ID / MT / WY. Hope you are following such on live video feed at CDE or CDE-Lite (access via WRAP website at http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/WRAP).
Based on the filed flight-plan, we automatically generated targets of interests based on MODIS “hot pixels” with a 6nm corridor. Draper Laboratory optimized the targets based on predicted cloud coverage in the area.
As a result, ASTER and EO-1 were tasked to image CASTLE ROCK, Idaho. It will be interesting to get the raw data, process it and overlay it on the map with the UAV imagery…
The UAV will also be able to task EO-1 to take complementary imagery as needed.
The Geo-Web in action…