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A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements

Small uncrewed aerial systems (sUASs) have the potential to serve as ideal platforms for high spatial and temporal resolution wildfire measurements to complement aircraft and satellite observations, but typically have very limited payload capacity. Recognizing the need for improved data from wildfir...

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Autores principales: Thornberry, Troy D., Gao, Ru-Shan, Ciciora, Steven J., Watts, Laurel A., McLaughlin, Richard J., Leonardi, Angelina, Rosenlof, Karen H., Argrow, Brian M., Elston, Jack S., Stachura, Maciej, Fromm, Joshua, Brewer, W. Alan, Schroeder, Paul, Zucker, Michael
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10099186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37050572
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073514
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author Thornberry, Troy D.
Gao, Ru-Shan
Ciciora, Steven J.
Watts, Laurel A.
McLaughlin, Richard J.
Leonardi, Angelina
Rosenlof, Karen H.
Argrow, Brian M.
Elston, Jack S.
Stachura, Maciej
Fromm, Joshua
Brewer, W. Alan
Schroeder, Paul
Zucker, Michael
author_facet Thornberry, Troy D.
Gao, Ru-Shan
Ciciora, Steven J.
Watts, Laurel A.
McLaughlin, Richard J.
Leonardi, Angelina
Rosenlof, Karen H.
Argrow, Brian M.
Elston, Jack S.
Stachura, Maciej
Fromm, Joshua
Brewer, W. Alan
Schroeder, Paul
Zucker, Michael
author_sort Thornberry, Troy D.
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description Small uncrewed aerial systems (sUASs) have the potential to serve as ideal platforms for high spatial and temporal resolution wildfire measurements to complement aircraft and satellite observations, but typically have very limited payload capacity. Recognizing the need for improved data from wildfire management and smoke forecasting communities and the potential advantages of sUAS platforms, the Nighttime Fire Observations eXperiment (NightFOX) project was funded by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a suite of miniaturized, relatively low-cost scientific instruments for wildfire-related measurements that would satisfy the size, weight and power constraints of a sUAS payload. Here we report on a remote sensing system developed under the NightFOX project that consists of three optical instruments with five individual sensors for wildfire mapping and fire radiative power measurement and a GPS-aided inertial navigation system module for aircraft position and attitude determination. The first instrument consists of two scanning telescopes with infrared (IR) channels using narrow wavelength bands near 1.6 and 4 µm to make fire radiative power measurements with a blackbody equivalent temperature range of 320–1500 °C. The second instrument is a broadband shortwave (0.95–1.7 µm) IR imager for high spatial resolution fire mapping. Both instruments are custom built. The third instrument is a commercial off-the-shelf visible/thermal IR dual camera. The entire system weighs about 1500 g and consumes approximately 15 W of power. The system has been successfully operated for fire observations using a Black Swift Technologies S2 small, fixed-wing UAS for flights over a prescribed grassland burn in Colorado and onboard an NOAA Twin Otter crewed aircraft over several western US wildfires during the 2019 Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field mission.
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spelling pubmed-100991862023-04-14 A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements Thornberry, Troy D. Gao, Ru-Shan Ciciora, Steven J. Watts, Laurel A. McLaughlin, Richard J. Leonardi, Angelina Rosenlof, Karen H. Argrow, Brian M. Elston, Jack S. Stachura, Maciej Fromm, Joshua Brewer, W. Alan Schroeder, Paul Zucker, Michael Sensors (Basel) Article Small uncrewed aerial systems (sUASs) have the potential to serve as ideal platforms for high spatial and temporal resolution wildfire measurements to complement aircraft and satellite observations, but typically have very limited payload capacity. Recognizing the need for improved data from wildfire management and smoke forecasting communities and the potential advantages of sUAS platforms, the Nighttime Fire Observations eXperiment (NightFOX) project was funded by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a suite of miniaturized, relatively low-cost scientific instruments for wildfire-related measurements that would satisfy the size, weight and power constraints of a sUAS payload. Here we report on a remote sensing system developed under the NightFOX project that consists of three optical instruments with five individual sensors for wildfire mapping and fire radiative power measurement and a GPS-aided inertial navigation system module for aircraft position and attitude determination. The first instrument consists of two scanning telescopes with infrared (IR) channels using narrow wavelength bands near 1.6 and 4 µm to make fire radiative power measurements with a blackbody equivalent temperature range of 320–1500 °C. The second instrument is a broadband shortwave (0.95–1.7 µm) IR imager for high spatial resolution fire mapping. Both instruments are custom built. The third instrument is a commercial off-the-shelf visible/thermal IR dual camera. The entire system weighs about 1500 g and consumes approximately 15 W of power. The system has been successfully operated for fire observations using a Black Swift Technologies S2 small, fixed-wing UAS for flights over a prescribed grassland burn in Colorado and onboard an NOAA Twin Otter crewed aircraft over several western US wildfires during the 2019 Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field mission. MDPI 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10099186/ /pubmed/37050572 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073514 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Thornberry, Troy D.
Gao, Ru-Shan
Ciciora, Steven J.
Watts, Laurel A.
McLaughlin, Richard J.
Leonardi, Angelina
Rosenlof, Karen H.
Argrow, Brian M.
Elston, Jack S.
Stachura, Maciej
Fromm, Joshua
Brewer, W. Alan
Schroeder, Paul
Zucker, Michael
A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements
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title_full A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements
title_fullStr A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements
title_full_unstemmed A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements
title_short A Lightweight Remote Sensing Payload for Wildfire Detection and Fire Radiative Power Measurements
title_sort lightweight remote sensing payload for wildfire detection and fire radiative power measurements
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10099186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37050572
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23073514
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