IR camera payload for Earth monitoring onboard a 3U cubesat
- Paper number
IAC-16,B1,IP,15,x33675
- Coauthor
Mr. Juan Salvador Palacios Fonseca, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
- Coauthor
Mrs. Berenice Rodríguez Pedroza, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
- Coauthor
Dr. Miguel Velazquez de la Rosa, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
- Coauthor
Dr. Miguel Octavio Arias Estrada, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
- Coauthor
Dr. José Eduardo Mendoza Torres, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
- Year
2016
- Abstract
We are developing a camera for operate in the mid IR. The electronic and the optic have been designed to convert the camera in a payload for a Cubesat 3U to observe the Earth with the aim to study the water bodies, the status of lands of sowing (maturing and pests), as well as vegetation distribution. The camera is built by a IR detector with an array of 120 x 160 microbolometers, an optical system optimized for long-wave length light, signal conditioning electronics and its digitization; also have a pre-processing core, compressing images algorithm and mass storage system. Given the reduced size of the Cubesat, we have been an effort to miniaturize the optics to satisfy the 3U standard. We describe also the electronic functional blocks and the methods for the data pre-processing and later selection.
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