https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/07c51984-cb91-4de3-af88-191c680e2849 NASA Coffee Harvest Demo Validates Practicality of UAVs This 53-second video taken September 30, 2002 shows NASA's solar-powered Pathfinder-Plus flying wing again proving its value as an airborne platform for remote sensing and imaging when it flew a demonstration mission over the Kauai Coffee Co. plantations in Hawaii. Sensitive infrared and visible light cameras mounted in small pods underneath the craft's center wing recorded crisp digital images of the ripening coffee fields from the aircraft flying four miles above, and immediately relayed that imagery to the ground. Based upon that imagery, plantation managers were able to determine which fields were most appropriate for harvest. The Pathfinder-Plus solar-powered aircraft was designed and fabricated by AeroVironment, Inc. Later it was transferred to NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center to develop science platform aircraft technology as part of the Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Program. For more information on Pathfinder visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-034-DFRC.html For more information on the ERAST program visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-020-DFRC.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/xjhT7-tnGNM Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:54:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/07c51984-cb91-4de3-af88-191c680e2849 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.