The Future of Firefighting Includes ATAK
One of the newest tools breaking its way into the firefighting scene is the Android Team Awareness Kit developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory
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TAK, Aircraft on Grizzly Creek Wildfire
News Story covering Grizzly Creek Firefirghter in Colorado leveraging ATAK.
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KKCO – TAK for WildFires
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).
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ATAK Sand Table Demo
Here’s a demo from the University of Colorado, Center of Excellence, Advanced Technology, that shows ATAK projected onto a 3D sand-table for better command visualization. It makes me wonder how you “3D print” a sand table. Let me know if you how they do that or whether to just 3D print it with ABS (more expensive, more durable). Also, can …
MoreATAK serves Fire Fighters
From Isreali Tech news, i-HLS.Com: A technology originating in the US military sector is being tested in order to help save firefighters’ lives. The ATAK – Android Team Awareness Kit is essentially a tool that tells firefighters exactly where they are and what kind of fire they’re seeing. ATAK was developed by the US Air Force Research Lab in order …
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Colorado uses TAK to innovate on wildfires
This entire article from the Denver Business Journal is worth a read: This year, the Center of Excellence debuted the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), a geospatial mapping engine that facilitates situational awareness, navigation and data sharing among firefighters. As most fires occur miles away from reliable internet access, ATAK provides emergency personnel with smartphones and antennas to create a …
MoreColorado developing drone system with TAK
Wildfire Today reports that the state of Colorado is integrating drones with ATAK (“The Holy Grail of Wildland Firefighter Safety”) for firefighting use: The state of Colorado is working on a system that would use drones to provide live video of wildfires to wildland firefighters’ cell phones. The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting is beta testing a DVI Mavic …
MoreUniversities Present “Resilient Networking” Paper Leveraging ATAK
Michigan Tech, Indiana University, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, sponsored by NIST presented a paper on networking with ATAK for forest firefighting using a mix of LTE and WiFi, and leveraging a Raspberry Pi for data ferrying with a drone. The presentation is here.
MoreCO Firefighters Report Using ATAK, Comm
The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control published a study on their evaluation of ATAK with goTennas, SPOT Trackers and tactical radios. Here is the study, and here’s an excerpt from the report: The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting (CoE) took advantage of the field test of satellite messengers to test an additional system that uses …
MoreCo Firefighters Leveraging ATAK
The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control has been experimenting with TAK for a couple of years now, with GoTenna SPOT Trackers and tactical radios. Here’s a video they did discussing ATAK’s use in their career fields.
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