Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer
Airborne Thematic Thermal InfraRed and Electro-Optical Imaging System, Phase I
Project Description
The innovation is an advanced Airborne Thematic Thermal InfraRed and Electro-Optical Imaging System (ATTIREOIS). ATTIREOIS sensor payload consists of two sets of advanced Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) a broadband Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) and a four (4) band Multispectral Electro-Optical Sensor (MEOS) to approximate Landsat ETM+ bands 1,2,3,4, and 6, and LDCM bands 2,3,4,5, and 10+11. The airborne TIRS is 3-axis stabilized system capable of providing 3D photogrammetric images with a 1,850 pixel swathwidth via pushbroom operation. MEOS has a total of 116 million simultaneous sensor counts capable of providing 3 cm spatial resolution multispectral orthophotos for continuous airborne mapping. ATTIREOIS is a complete standalone and easy-to-use portable imaging instrument for light aerial vehicle deployment. Its miniaturized backend data system operates all ATTIREOIS sensor components, an INS/GPS, and an e-Gimbal Control Electronic Unit (ECU) with a data throughput of 300 Megabytes/sec. It has a volume of 0.03 m3 and a mass of 20 kg. The backend provides advanced onboard processing, performing autonomous raw sensor imagery development, TIRS image track-recovery reconstruction, LWIR/VNIR multi-band co-registration, and photogrammetric image processing. With proposed geometric optics and boresight calibrations, the ATTIREOIS data products are directly georeferenced with an accuracy of approximately one meter.
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Anticipated Benefits
ATTIREOIS supports light aerial vehicle deployment and collects timely and cost-effective multispectral photogrammetric data products. With its real time GIS-ready centimeter level resolution VNIR and decimeter level resolution LWIR multispectral images with 0.02 K temperature measurement resolution. It is capable of performing following commercial applications: • High-resolution aerial thermal mapping over a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and residential areas to detect thermal anomalies, including insulation deterioration of a powerline and rooftop thermal leakage; • Thermal and pollution effluents from mining and other industrial operations such as quarries, paper mills, and power plants; • Rapid disaster and emergency response • Surveillance and reconnaissance • Forest fires and residual warm spots; • Land resource management; • Law enforcement; • Aerial deer and seabird counts; • Identify mosquito-breeding areas • Monitor vegetation water consumption by mapping evapotranspiration at high resolution • Precision agriculture, crop growing status monitoring, and vegetation specie mapping. ATTIREOIS is a portable airborne instrument that provides optical and boresight calibrated, precisely and directly georeferenced, and error-estimated surface emissive and solar reflective LWIR/VNIR multispectral images. By approximating 5 fixed wavelength bands of Landsat ETM+ sensor at very high resolution, it has near term NASA commercial applications of: 1) Underflight satellites to support satellite measurement calibration and validation observations; 2) Location and mapping of water-harboring subsurface caves and new sources of spring waters in the southwestern United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah); 3) Deployment in a UAV/Airship for either field-expedient or persistent launch range surveillance/intrusion data collection; 4) Mapping of river, river delta, and coastal water thermal gradients, color gradients, and pollution. Its long term NASA applications include: 1) Exploration of Martian water-harboring subsurface caves; 2) Mapping the extent of certain Moon/Mars surface resources and identifying promising outpost/science sites and traversable terrains.
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Primary U.S. Work Locations and Key Partners
| Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flight Landata, Inc. | Lead Organization | Industry | North Andover, Massachusetts |
Goddard Space Flight Center
(GSFC)
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Supporting Organization | NASA Center | Greenbelt, Maryland |
Primary U.S. Work Locations
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Maryland
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Massachusetts
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