Howe Began Assisting National Guard Wildfire Monitoring During The 2018 Fire Season
NASA pilot Scott Howe is flying a remotely piloted MQ-9 with infrared cameras that can see through smoke and ash. The live images are overlaid with maps and satellite imagery of California wildfires to give commanders a more complete picture of what they face. Howe is not flying the Ikhana, a civilian variant of the MQ-9 that was based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. This fire season he has often been flying a MQ-9 for the California Air National Guard as they assist with some of the most devastating wildfires in the state’s history.
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