UASFireWorkshop2021
2021 UAS Integration for Fire Operation Workshop
Summary
Sponsor: USDA-NIFA National Robotics Initiative Grant, NSF Smart & Connected Community Grant 8:45 AM – 15:30 PM CDT, 2021/11/17(Wednesday) Format: Online Meeting
Workshop Program
Introduction & Opening (8:45-9:00 CDT) Plenary talk (9:00-9:30 CDT) “Wildfire-induced cascading geohazards and programming at USDA NIFA for hazards mitigation”, Steven Thomson, USDA NIFA, and Farshid Vahedifard, Mississippi State University Technical Presentations (9:30-11:00 CDT) a. 9:30 – 9:45, “Fire metrics measurement using sUAS”, Haiyang Chao, University of Kansas b. 9:45 – 10:00, “UAS data enabled operational fire spread simulation”, Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University c. 10:00-10:15, “Smoke management for prescribed burning”, Zifei Liu, Kansas State University d. 10:15-10:30, “Reasons for conducting a prescribed Burn”, Walter Fick, Kansas State University e. 10:30-10:45, “Prescribed fire setting using multi-rotor UAS”, Carrick Detweiler, University of Nebraska, Lincoln and Drone Amplified f. 10:45-11:00, “sUAS data sharing guidelines”, Lindsay Barbieri, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) UAS for Wildfire Operation Discussion (11:00-12:30 CDT) – Moderator: Haiyang Chao and Sheena Parsons Objective: UAS safety and wildfire integration challenges/needs
Prescribed Fire Community Discussions (13:30-15:00 CDT) – Moderator: Walter Fick and Xiaolin Hu Objective: how to integrate UAS and fire behavior simulation to achieve smarter and safer prescribed burning? Open Discussions (15:00-15:30 CDT) a. UAS and payload demonstration b. Fire data collection and data sharing