H. Jahn, K. Briess, A. Ginati

The planned Fire Recognition System for Small Satellites (FIRES) is a dedicated sensor system for fire investigation, monitoring, and alert from space. It consists mainly of a so-called fore field sensor with low geometrical resolution, large swath width, and few (IR and VIS/NIR) channels for hot spot detection, coarse fire parameter determination and mapping, a (IR and VIS/NIR) main sensor with higher geometrical resolution for detailed fire analysis, and a sensor brain for on-board processing of the sensor data. User-friendly data products shall be generated and geo-coded on-board using GPS and attitude measuring systems and directly distributed to regional users. Besides these technological objectives and the alert function, FIRES has the following scientific objectives: -determination of prameters of temperature activities (vegetation fires, volcano activity, ...), fire classification -assessment of some of the ecological consequences of these activities (e.g. aerosol emissions from forest fires and volcanoes, burned area assessment) -generation of thematic maps (e.g. temperature distribution maps) -supply of image data for fire research and statistics The small FIRES satellite has the following preliminary parameters: thress axis stabilized, mass less than 350kg, payload mass approximately 70kg, peak power approx. 290W. The planned orbit is a sun-synchronous integer orbit with height of 888km and an inclination of 99° wich gurantees that FIRES is over the intersting large forests (e.g. tropical forests in Brasil) in the early afternoon. The phase A is finished and the planned launch is in 1999.

DGLR/DARA-Symposium "Kleinsatelliten", Dresden, 1995

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englisch

14,8 x 21,0 cm, 15 Seiten

DGLR-Bericht, 1995, 1995-06, Kleinsatelliten - Ein vielversprechender Weg in der Weltraumforschung und Raumfahrttechnik; S.71-85; 1995; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V., Bonn

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small satellite technology

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1995