NEXTGEN Incident Response Communication System – Using ATSC 3.0 

This paper provides a timely description of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research project investigating the use of a mobile ATSC 3.0 datacasting station to help support wildland fire management operations. We will discuss a proposed innovation called the NextGen Incident Response Communication System (NIRCS). NIRCS is a rapidly deployable, mobile, long-range broadcast communications system using ATSC 3.0 technology – the digital terrestrial broadcast system built on the internet protocol (IP) – to enable one-way datacasting of IP-compatible data, including ultra-high-definition video, high-fidelity audio, and other types of data packets (e.g., aircraft position messages).

Fred Engel | Device Solutions Inc. | Morrisville, N.C., United States
Tim Bagnall | Mosaic ATM | Leesburg, Va., United States
Mark Corl | Triveni Digital | Princeton, N.J., United States
Chris Pandich, Don Smith | PBS North Carolina | Research Triangle Park, N.C., United States
Jim Stenberg | Over The Air Consulting, LLC | Portland, Maine, United States
Tony Sammarco, Chris Lamb | Device Solutions Inc. | Morrisville, N.C., United States