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it was called one of the worst forest

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fires in a hundred years the summer

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Wileman jello stone National Park burned

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out of control extreme heat low rainfall

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and powerful rims fuel fires that

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eventually swept over a third of the

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park the key to controlling such a

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crisis is knowing where the fire is and

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where it's spreading the most important

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tool for the Forest Service is an

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infrared camera system capable of seeing

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through smoke to pick out hot swap some

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fire fronts from the air talk by

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analyzing infrared strip photography

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interpreters plus these areas on the map

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for firefighters to use hot areas appear

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dark wrinkled areas wipe the system

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designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion lab

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in Pasadena California has been a

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standard firefighting resource for many

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years in the near future JPL will design

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a new system with the Forest Service

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that locates fires transmits the

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information to a portable ground station

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and automatically plots them on a map

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all within minutes studies made at

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NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain

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View California have also resulted in

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major breakthroughs in forest fire

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remote sensing learning these advances

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the national condom Forest Service drug

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passenger dynamos

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eames agreed to fly two of its aerial

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observatories

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both give a big picture view of can

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fire fighting strategists aboard NASA's

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c-130

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made on the spot a value

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masses of the observatory

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space it was able to accomplish infrared

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remote sensing of the parks 4,000 square

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miles in about two hours simultaneously

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transmitting all this data to scientists

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on the ground in West Yellowstone within

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hours maps were generated for

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firefighters be upon all these systems

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were only flown a few times over

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Yellowstone the technology proved it

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could help NASA Ames data endless jeff

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meyers I think our first flight on

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September second we found six or seven

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large fires and remote areas that they

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were not aware of the remote sensing

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capabilities of the er-2 were also used

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face blazing walls of fire

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repeat I this is the visible red green

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and blue channels put together which

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gives us natural color as the human eye

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would see it it's not possible to see

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flames or fire fronts on this from this

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altitude and with a heavy smoke on the

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ground so it is necessary to go to the

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infrared to see what's actively burning

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the fire front comes immediately

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apparent the yellow and orange areas are

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what is already burned these the

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purplish appearing areas dense lodgepole

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pine as yet to burn you can see how the

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fire has been carried by the wind

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direction through these two corridors on

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either side of the Old Faithful

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finding new ways to monitor fires and

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study their influence on global climate'

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is a NASA goal and saving protected

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lands a vital by-product nasa's earth

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resources aircraft and advanced remote

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sensing