The Wildfire Research and Applications Partnership (WRAP) project was successfully competed and funded in 2003
under the NASA Office of Earth Science (OES) Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) CAN-02-OES-01, entitled "Earth
Science REASoN – Research, Education, and Applications Solutions Network.
The project proposal, originally entitled "NASA Wildfire Response R&D, Applications and Technology
Implementation" (REASoN-0109-0172), was shortened to WRAP to highlight the collaborative partnership of the US
Forest Service and NASA in wildfire science and applications. The project is a 5-year funded effort, initiated in
July 2003. The objectives of the project are to foster collaborative partnerships between NASA and the US Forest
Service to facilitate and demonstrate evolved and evolving technologies for increasing the information content and
timeliness of earth resource data collected for wildfires. Both agencies have worked collaboratively on parallel-track
developments in fire imaging, but this initiative is the first major effort at formalizing and focusing wildfire science
and applications between the agencies. The expected outcomes of this collaborative effort are creation of improved tools
for Wildfire Decision Support Systems within the US Forest Service and the other fire mitigation and management agencies.
