[Esip-envirosensing] Forwarding a wildfire/UAS workshop

[Scotty D Strachan]

Dear EnviroSensors,



In case any of you are involved at the nexus of wildfire and UAS/sensors/data, here is an open workshop for tomorrow that came across from the AgClimate cluster.



Cheers,

Scotty


Scotty Strachan, Ph.D.
Director of Cyberinfrastructure
Office of Information Technology
University of Nevada, Reno
Email: strachan at unr.edu
Twitter: @ScottySci







UAS Integration for Fire Operation Workshop

1. Time

8:45 AM - 15:30 PM CDT, 2021/11/17(Wednesday)



2. Online Meeting

Join Zoom Meeting (Passcode: 434829) https://kansas.zoom.us/j/94458441194



3. Contact

Dr. Haiyang Chao, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Kansas. (E): chaohaiyang at ku.edu. (T): 785-864-2968



4. Online Discussion GoogleDoc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14z1MtajmWMsyHmBOSPzXISsNy9sZDQ2ukT_XObdloEg/edit



5. 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



Lunch Break (12:30-13:30 CDT)



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





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