Launchpad: NASA Technologies Helping Firefighters
Learn how firefighters detect wild fires. Ikhana is an Unmanned Aerial System, or UAS, used to take images through smoke and haze in order to detect hot spots and changes in temperature.
Background Information
Grades 9 through 12
- NASA Ikhana Multimedia
- NASA Ikhana/Predator B Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- NASA Armstrong Ikhana to Capture Orion Splashdown for NASA TV
- NASA Armstrong NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Ikhana/Predator B Unmanned Science and Research Aircraft System
- NASA Dryden Ikhana
Activities
Grades 9 through 12
- GLOBE Biosphere - Fire Fuels