Phoenix Capabilities/Products

October 2000 saw a fairly historic meeting of NASA Ames, US Army Aviation and Missile Command, CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), NIICD Infrared, USDA Remote Sensing Applications Center, and USDA Fire & Aviation personnel. After much discussion and planning, it was decided to interface this new system to the RS-25 scan head. 

The Phoenix System has been a long time in development. Several approaches were tried as were several hardware arrangements. Many very talented individuals were involved in the final development of this system. Phoenix operates on a Windows-based PC system, has a data acquisition system, runs on software that is specially developed for Phoenix, and utilizes the same scan head as the Flame System (RS-25). 

With these improvements, we will be providing extremely accurate (within 2 pixels per scan line) hot spot locations that are geo-referenced in a ".tiff" format. 

 

Total field of view  120° 

Ground coverage  
6.5 Statute Miles at 10,000 Ft AGL 

Detectability  
8 inch 600°F Hot Spot at 14,000 Ft AGL 

Fire location method  
Edge marks and Pixel Enhancement, Geo-referenced .tiff files. 

Geo-Tiff referenced system outputs 
256 Color Grey-Scale Ortho

2 Color (False) Ortho 
Fire Only Ortho 

Raw Ortho 
Raw Hot Spot Shape Files 

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