33th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences

15 - Guest lectures

OVERVIEW OF JAXA AND NASA COLLABORATION ON MANNED AND UNMANNED AIRCRAFT OPERATION INTEGRATION IN DISASTER RESPONSE

A. Andreeva-Mori¹, J. Homola², M. Johnson², K. Kobayashi¹, Y. Okuno¹, P. Kopardekar²; ¹JAXA, Japan ;²NASA, United States

Since 2016, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have partnered to investigate and address the challenges related to the safe and efficient integration of UAS in disaster relief operations. The collaborative inter-agency work has focused on the integration of JAXA’s Disaster Relief Aircraft Information Sharing Network (D-NET) and NASA’s UAS Traffic Management (UTM) systems through simulation and testing with results and lessons learned that highlight an example solution with benefits to disaster response and more broadly to civil operations as well.


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