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FireMapper System Description

FireMapper™

The FireMapper™ is a high precision, airborne thermal imager developed through a Research Joint Venture between the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), and Space Instruments, Inc. FireMapper™ is intended as a quantitative instrument for mapping and monitoring the physical properties of wildland fires. Based on a microbolometer focal-plane array manufactured by BAE Systems, FireMapper™ incorporates two levels of on-board calibration, requires no cryogenic cooling, and images in a wide-band and two narrow-band channels in the thermal infrared spectrum. Fires are typically imaged with no saturation at a nominal wavelength of 12 micrometers and with little saturation at 9 micrometers. The broadband channel provides stable, radiometric measurements at typical earth-resource temperatures. As implemented aboard the PSW Airborne Sciences Aircraft, N127Z, the FireMapper™ radiometer is typically used in combination with a short-wave infrared InGaAs camera manufactured by Sensors Unlimited and two Kodak Megaplus 1.6 i cameras providing digital imaging at red and near-infrared wavelengths.

 

 

 

Picture of FireMapper™ instrument

 

 

FireMapper™ system aboard N127Z

Manufacturer
  Space Instruments Sensors Unlimited Kodak (Redlake)
Camera model
  FireMapper™ SU320M Megaplus 1.6i
Spectral bands (micrometers)
  8.1 to 9.0 1.5 to 1.65 0.615 to 0.685
  11.4 to 12.4
0.815 to 0.885
  8.1 to 12.4

Image dimensions (pixels)
  327x205 320x240 1528x1024
Image size-uncompressed (Mbytes)
  0.134 0.144 3.03
Image encoding (bits)
  16 12 10
Instantaneous field of view (milliradians)
  1.85 1.6 0.45
Crosstrack field of view (degrees)
  35 29 39

FireMapper™ Specifications: Instrument

FireMapper™ References: Publications

FireMapper™ Tools image analysis software ftp downloads page

For Further Information: contact Dr. Philip J. Riggan

 

FireMapper™ has been developed through a Research Joint Venture with Space Instruments, Inc., and support from the National Fire Plan, Forest Service International Programs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Joint Fire Sciences Program, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

 

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