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The USDA’s Forest Service posted an article and video showing off their adoption of the Team Awareness Kit for wildland forest fire fighting. From the article: Here’s the video from the article: Team Awareness Kit from USDA Forest Service on Vimeo.
USDA/Forest Service Adopting TAK More
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science ad Technology (PCAST) has released a report titled “Modernizing Wildland Firefighting to Protect Our Firefighters” led by, led by Nobel Lauret and Cal Tech professor Frances Arnold, with former NASA astronaut Kathi Sullivan, PhD and John Dabiri, also a Cal Tech Professor. The report has five recommendations, the first of which is to …
Presidential Report on Modernizing Wildland Firefighting More
This article from Enterprise Security discusses the demand for “fast, accurate communications technology is higher than ever”, how mobile technology can improve situational awareness, and help support a wider range of crises, and that some firefighters are turning to ATAK to fill that need.
Here’s How Fire Departments Can Improve Efficiency Using Mobile… More
News Story covering Grizzly Creek Firefirghter in Colorado leveraging ATAK.
TAK, Aircraft on Grizzly Creek Wildfire More
This video via LinkedIn from Andreas “AJ” Johansson shows ATAK being used in California Forest Firefighting, including a video showing coordination between airbore video and the fire in real time.
TAK Used in CA Firefighting w/ Aircraft Video More
AJ Johansson Posts a video of using Pix4D to get info on a Brush fire, and uses CivTAK to estimate the amount of burned land. The entire post is below:
AJ-Pix4D for Firefighting More
This video from NBC11News.com (Colorado’s KKCO TV) on TAK — The Team Awareness Kit – verses paper maps, starring Brad Schmidt. It also highlights the value of mesh radios and Senator Cory Gardner (R, Colorado).
KKCO – TAK for WildFires More
Small VTOL UAS integrated with TAK & with quick fireline mapping.
Overwatch Aero Seamless & TAK Integration More
This LinkedIn post from Andreas Johansson, complete with video, shows and explains DroneTAK’s value to the Corona Fire Department. He doesn’t say it here, but it is clear that he’s using WinTAK as well in his “command center”.
DroneTAK Video Demo MoreThis is a short post from LinkedIn from Andreas Johansson discussing their first use of TAK for rescues in Bernalillo county NY which seems to be liked ot the 911 system using RapidSOS. ATAK and PAR’s Team Connect being used with Enhanced Location Services from RapidSOS 911 caller data to plot an injured hikers location and collaborate with Aircrews for …
Corona CA Fire Dept Using TAK for Rescues More