Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Smokey the Bear Meets the 21st Century in These Firefighting UAVs

Smokey the Bear Meets the 21st Century in These Firefighting UAVs

Remember, only you can prevent forest fires. But that doesn't stop them from happening with frightening regularity and increasingly destructive force. To better understand and predict the atmospheric conditions that lead to these wildfires, one research team wants to float an armada of disposable, self-guided sensor-toting UAVs into the flames' maw. Finally, all those years of making paper airplanes in the back of the class are finally paying off.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Y5SIx6jkbLY/smokey-the-bear-meets-the-21st-century-in-these-firefig-873241341

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