Mounted in a box on the floor of NASA's B200 King Air, the Autonomous Modular Scanner peers out through an aperture in the bottom of the aircraft. The scanner operates like a digital camera with special filters to detect light energy at visible, infrared, and thermal wavelengths as it peers through smoke and haze.
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Mounted in a box on the floor of NASA’s B200 King Air, the Autonomous Modular Scanner peers out through an aperture in the bottom of the aircraft. The scanner operates like a digital camera with special filters to detect light energy at visible, infrared, and thermal wavelengths as it peers through smoke and haze to detect active hot spots in wildfires.NASA / Tony Landis
July 27, 2011