Integrating Orbital and Airborne Assets:
SensorWeb Demonstrations During Western State Fire Mission (WSFM) 2007

The authors will describe SensorWeb applications demonstrated during the Western States Fire Mission of 2007. These activities, funded by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office, seek to develop a prototype system which integrates multiples satellite, airborne and in situ instruments to address wildfire monitoring needs. Data and assets integrated during these activities include the NIFC ICS-209 large fire database; MODIS active fire detections from Terra and Aqua; U.S. Air Force Weather Agency cloud predictions; Remote Automated Weather Station observations; the Hyperion and Advanced Land Imager instruments on EO-1; and the AMS sensor payload on the Ikhana UAS. We will describe how MODIS was used to refine targeting based upon the large fires identified in the ICS-209 database; how cloud predictions were used to select the best observation conditions among multiple potential targets; and how this targeting information was passed to EO-1 and the Ikhana for image acquisition. We also conducted bi-directional tasking whereby fire detections processed onboard EO-1 were passed to Ikhana and vice versa, all in real-time. The interfaces developed are compliant with the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium and include web-based process servers and service chains. The results are a contribution to the U.S. commitment to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. Collaborators include Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center, University of Maryland, George Mason University, West Virginia High Tech Foundation, University of Alabama - Huntsville, Draper Laboratories, and Noblis.