NASA and Google steps in IKHANA UAV AirCraft fight California fires using to the

"After editing the images are transmitted where to place the images on an Ames site Ames a communication satellite NASA." Then combine the images is with Google Earth maps, "said Vince Ambrosia from NASA Ames, principal investigator of the project."

California Santiago fire burn more than 426,000 hectares and has NASA to displace more than 500,000 people from their homes in the Google Earth maps to support and reinforce their IKHANA UAV aircraft. Working with firefighters, the sheer exhaustion due to suffer on their feet for more than three days of heavy fighting, has NASA joined today ranks, fly your Ikhana remotely through seven of the twelve fires in California with the highest technology available to humanity.

NASA's is a sensor package Ikhana instruments contribute to see smoking when transferring infrared images by the space agency and help moderate data up to the Fire Department on the ground, to give you better, strategic combat the fires were designed. Designed with a 10 hour flight plan to the California fire fight it flew on Dryden Flight Research Center from NASA the Edwards Air Force base in California.

The Ikhana is Ikhana plane specially for NASA as a long endurance level, the high specialized aircraft in the Iraq and Afghanistan one United States air force. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by flown remotely is pilots at NASA Dryden, the Ikhana is a General Atomics Aeronautial system predator b it specialized in working with special sensors, the fire pictures on board the aircraft, to process, before you at the bottom of the firefighters. With the autonomous modular sensor wildfire is designed for the Ikhana, allows it the remote flown robbers look while wearing the fire sensor package. About a month ago, NASA Dryden had a Ikhana demonstration flight series as part of the Western States fire done to show their improved wildfire imaging and mapping functions, according to Yahoo News.

Oh, a native's American Choctaw term intelligence, conscious by the way IKHANA or deliberately applies. NASA felt, it was because of research appropriate objectives NASA had an established for the Ikhana and related systems. Another news that the Ikhana Dryden was acquired aircraft by NASA in November 2006 "for environmental science and technology research missions adjusted" is added Reported Yahoo each mission will enable coordinated remote piloted aircraft within the United States with the FAA national airspace, while maintaining the separation from other aircraft to fly.
(http://www.amarsodyssey.com/2007/10/24/nasa-google-steps-in-with-ikhana-uav-to-help-fight-california-fires/)

Nancy Houser, author of "A Mars Odyssey," is a freelance writer and Illustrator of 30 years. Life in Central Nebraska a dog rescue, run fills your cosy time with 13 grandchildren and watch the sky.