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NASA Tools Could Help Fight Fires – from the Sky and the Ground


Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center
The fire wasn’t real that day in the rolling hills of Northern California, already turning crisp and brown at the beginning of May. But it offered the perfect opportunity for a group of NASA researchers to test the technology they’ve been building.

Their demonstration at a wildfire simulation outside Redding, California, showed how emergency responders of all kinds could work more safely and effectively using the prototype tools of NASA’s STEReO project – Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations.

The faux fire, marked out with orange flags and smoke flares, was being used for aerial firefighting training by STEReO’s partners at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CAL FIRE, and the U.S. Forest Service. The exercises focused on the role in wildfire response of an air traffic controller in the sky.

A plane flying overhead drops water over a forest. In the foreground, several people watch from a white tent
NASA researchers watch as an air tanker drops water during an aerial firefighting training event that served also as a flight demonstration for NASA’s Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations, or STEReO, project, on May 4, 2021. STEReO builds on NASA’s expertise in drone traffic management to develop tools that help emergency responders work more safely and efficiently.
Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Circling above the scene, this person watches from the window of a plane. They visually track numerous aircraft and juggle their requests – over multiple radio frequencies – to fly near the fire or drop fire retardant, all while steering everyone clear of the firefighters on foot.

While the partners’ trainees were learning this demanding job, NASA’s STEReO team got to work testing tools that could one day assist them.

New Solutions Require New Coordination

Wildland firefighting is no joke, and, today, critical decisions about dangerous situations rely in part on reports that come in from teams in the field. New technologies could help here: imagine, instead, drones sending real-time data from the perimeter of a forest fire to determine where crews will be most effective.



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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

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• Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United StatesFounder: Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United StatesFounder: Dwight D. EisenhowerFounded: 29 July 1958, United States
• Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United StatesFounder: Dwight D. EisenhowerFounded: 29 July 1958, United StatesSubsidiaries: NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, more
• Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United StatesFounder: Dwight D. EisenhowerFounded: 29 July 1958, United StatesSubsidiaries: NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, moreAdministered by: Steve Jurczyk, Bill Nelson

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