Newest forest firefighter: Predator UAV

摘要

The firefighting team battling the recent California wildfires got a helping hand from Ikhana, a Predator B UAV from General Atomics in San Diego and modified by NASA with an IR imager. Launched and controlled from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, the unmanned drone flew 22,000 ft over major blazes as its IR imager peered through smoke and haze, detecting hot spots and determining ground temperatures to within 0.5℃.