Station_BAER_11-19-09 NASA's Autonomous Modular Scanner, carried in a pod under the wing of the agency's remotely piloted Predator B Ikhana, collected this post-fire Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation, or BAER, image on Nov. 19, 2009. The red line is the Sept. 9 perimeter fire line defined by the fire management teams. The various purple hues show the differences in burn severity within the area. The BAER data is derived from development of autonomous processes operating on the sensor's multi-spectral data available when in the wildfire configuration. The processes can be changed mid-mission to optimize collection of critical information, either in mapping active fires or assessing post-burn severity. November 19, 2009 NASA Image
