FireSense

The Campaign

FireSense is an ongoing NASA project focusing on developing science and technological capabilities to improve wildland fire management and forecasting in the United States. FireSense has completed one deployment in the boreal fall of 2023 across the western United States. Multiple aircraft were equipped with remote sensors such as the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER), Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer 3 (AVIRIS-3), and Scanning L-band Active Passive (SLAP) to sample vegetation, soil moisture and areas affected by wildland fires in the western United States. FireSense is part of a larger Wildland Fire Initiative across NASA and is funded through NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Additional Notes

Repositories

• other NASA repository not formally considered a DAAC by ESDS