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The United States Forest Service has been named as a finalist in the AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards
The United States Forest Service (USFS) has been named a finalist in the XCELLENCE Awards by the Association for Uncrewed Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI). The USFS was selected from a pool of accomplished applicants as one of five finalists for the Xcellence in Mission (Public Safety) category. Winners will be announced at XPONENTIAL 2023 on May 8-11 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.
AUVSI's XCELLENCE Awards honor innovators with a demonstrated commitment to advancing autonomy, leading and promoting safe adoption of uncrewed systems and developing programs that use these technologies to save lives and improve the human condition.
The USFS UAS program has been partnering with NASA's Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations (STEReO) team, a multi-center activity led by researchers in the Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL), to test and scale new technologies for wildfire mixed airspace operations. One such technology is the UASP-kit, which aims to enhance the airspace awareness of UAS pilots during firefighting operations by displaying Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) tracks of nearby aircraft and alerting the teams to potential encroachments on the planned operating areas of the UAS.
Point of Contact: Joey Mercer, Human Systems Integration Division, NASA Ames Research Center, joey.mercer@nasa.gov |
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