Target Acquisition and Guidance System (TAGS) for Wildfire Response

TAGS (Target Acquisition and Guidance System) is an autonomous, platform-agnostic UAS navigation and coordination system that acts as a high level mission manager for operations for multi-domain autonomous vehicles. TAGS enables real-time situational awareness without continuous human intervention through a hierarchical structure where a centralized computer processes field collected data from vehicles and remotes sensors, dynamically adapts flight plans based on fire behavior predictions, wind patterns, and detected hotspots, and dynamically distributes tasks to the autonomous vehicle fleet. The system communicates via a mesh network, ensuring data relay even in areas with limited connectivity, and generates situational awareness and predictions maps that are shown to the user via TAK platform for real-time visualization by incident commanders.