NASA develops sensor to improve firefighter safety

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA's FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to ...

Fire dozers outfitted with NASA-made sensors help battle blazes

Dangerous, frontline firefighting jobs may get a bit safer thanks to new heat-sensing sensors designed by NASA. The sensors ...
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NASA Recruits RoGO for Fighting Wildfires

DropBlock communications units can be dropped by helicopter to forest firefighters for communications and personnel/equipment ...
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Letters to the editor: There needs to be more communication between LA firefighters and NASA

To the editor: It is a supremely tragic and unfathomable irony that one of the world’s premier image analysis facilities, with particular expertise in the detection of hotspots and fires — the Caltech ...
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Letters to the Editor: There needs to be more communication between L.A. firefighters and NASA

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. JPL, a premier fire detection facility, lacked communication with L.A. County firefighters despite being located ...