https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bb34cf7c-bdde-4f92-9b83-41844f0db70a This 32-second video taken September 30, 2002 shows NASA's solar-powered Pathfinder-Plus photographing Hawaiian coffee fields and the coffee fields being harvested after the flight data was analyzed. 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., and then transferred to NASA to develop science platform aircraft technology as part of the Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Program. ERAST was one of NASA's initiatives designed to develop the new technologies needed to continue America's leadership in the highly competitive aerospace industry. 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/tv1u9TG3JwE Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:38:33 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/bb34cf7c-bdde-4f92-9b83-41844f0db70a 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.