The NightFOX project: a small UAS system for wildfire observations

Troy D Thornberry1,2, Ru-Shan Gao2, Laurel A Watts1,2, Steven J Ciciora2, Richard J McLaughlin1,2, Karen Hepler Rosenlof2, Brian M. Argrow3,4, Daniel Hesselius4, Jack Steward Elston5, Adam Kochanski6 and Jan Mandel7, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, IRISS, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (7)University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Denver, CO, United States