Innovative ideas for the detection of fires from a geostationary orbit.
- Paper number
IAC-15,B1,3,3,x28248
- Author
Dr. Shimshon (Steven) Lashansky, Elbit Systems, Electro Optics, ELOP Ltd., Israel
- Coauthor
Dr. Yuval Erez, Elbit Systems, Electro Optics, ELOP Ltd., Israel
- Coauthor
Dr. Michael Berger, Israel
- Coauthor
Mr. Aharon Nir, Israel
- Coauthor
Mr. Zohar Shmoelof, Israel
- Coauthor
Mr. Omer Cohen, Israel
- Coauthor
Dr. Philip Klipstein, Israel
- Coauthor
Mr. Nadav Shavit, Israel
- Coauthor
Mr. Yossi Kamari, Israel
- Year
2015
- Abstract
Thermal imagers are used in a geostationary orbit for monitoring weather, volcanic eruptions and fire detection. Each year, global wildfires burn roughly 865 million acres (~3.5 million square kilometers) of land. The cost in damage is devastating not to mention the impact on the environment. In the United States alone the damage is estimated to be roughly between $20 billion and $125 billion annually. In the past uncooled thermal imagers did not have the sensitivity to meet the legacy mission requirements. Recent developments in detector and scanning technology have facilitated the development of smaller more sensitive systems. This paper analyzes the feasibility of using these new technologies for early detection of forest fires from a geostationary orbit. The detector technologies that are evaluated are, wide band microbolometers, large format InGaAs SWIR detectors and HOT XBn detectors. Keywords: fire detection, microbolometer, scanning mirror, SWIR, XBn, InGaAs
- Abstract document
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