These resources address the decisions behind useful UAS support: defining the request, incident integration, airspace coordination, sensor limitations, exercises, remote access, connectivity, verification, and information handling.
Interactive planning tool
Review authority, assignment definition, communications, remote viewing, deliverables, information handling, verification, and closeout. Selections remain in the browser and are not submitted or stored.
Define the relationship, request, exercise objectives, evaluation, and corrective actions before relying on an outside UAS resource.
Fire service planning
A practical planning framework for fire departments evaluating supplemental drone support, including incident command, assignments, thermal limitations, communications, and data handling.
Read the resourceAgency integration
A planning checklist for agencies integrating nonprofit, contracted, or mutual-aid UAS resources into incident command, communications, airspace coordination, and data handling.
Read the resourceRegional planning
Regional considerations for fire, search, emergency-management, and disaster-response organizations evaluating supplemental UAS support in Western Washington.
Read the resourceResource requests
A request checklist for public agencies defining the authority, assignment, location, airspace, hazards, communications, deliverables, and information controls needed for UAS support.
Read the resourceTraining and exercises
A practical framework for tabletop and field exercises covering activation, command integration, aviation decisions, communications, remote viewing, findings, data transfer, and demobilization.
Read the resourceExercises and improvement
A structured after-action framework for agencies evaluating UAS activation, command integration, aviation decisions, communications, remote viewing, products, information handling, and corrective actions.
Read the resourcePlan sensor use, airspace coordination, segment reporting, verification, and the limits that must accompany fire and search observations.
Search planning
A field-oriented explanation of thermal drone search capabilities, environmental limitations, search planning, verification, and when aerial observation may be useful.
Read the resourceWildfire aviation safety
A planning resource for integrating an authorized UAS assignment around wildfire aviation, temporary flight restrictions, controlling agencies, crewed aircraft, and incident communications.
Read the resourceSearch documentation
A reporting framework for defining aerial search segments, recording the sensor and conditions used, describing actual observation, and returning gaps to the search planner.
Read the resourceFire-service documentation
A disciplined workflow for assigning, communicating, recording, and transferring exterior thermal observations while preserving sensor limitations and ground verification.
Read the resourceOrganize visible-condition capture, flood-corridor assignments, site references, product limitations, and information handling for later agency use.
Damage documentation
A practical checklist for defining locations, damage questions, reference information, capture priorities, field controls, and deliverables before requesting aerial disaster documentation.
Read the resourceFlood response planning
How emergency-management and public-works teams can define a flood-corridor observation assignment, reference water conditions, document access and visible impacts, and avoid overstating reconnaissance products.
Read the resourceInformation handling
A policy-oriented checklist for collecting, transferring, preserving, restricting, documenting, retaining, and releasing aerial imagery and related operational data.
Read the resourcePrepare authorized viewing, connectivity, fallback communications, session controls, and recovery before remote access is operationally important.
Operational communications
How secured remote video, telemetry, maps, and imagery can support authorized incident personnel—and how access, connectivity, and communications should be managed.
Read the resourceRemote operations
A field checklist for preparing uplink, playback, authorized viewers, adaptive quality, stall recovery, secondary displays, and communications fallbacks for secured remote video.
Read the resourceFor public agencies
IRIS Network can discuss mission fit, operating limits, communications, remote viewing, mapping, documentation, and the steps required before participation.