The BIRD payload platform

Ingo Walter; Klaus Briess; Wolfgang Baerwald; Wolfgang Skrbek; Fredrich Schrandt

doi:10.1117/12.462581

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8 April 2003 The BIRD payload platform

Ingo Walter, Klaus Briess, Wolfgang Baerwald, Wolfgang Skrbek, Fredrich Schrandt

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Proceedings Volume 4881, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites VI; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462581
Event: International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2002, Crete, Greece

Abstract

For hot spot events as forest fires, volcanic activity or burning oil spills and coal seams a dedicate dspace instrumentation does not exist. With its successful launch end of October 2001 with the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle the German Aerospace Center starts closing this gap with the micro-satellite mission BIRD. As space segment serves a three-axis stabilized satellite of 92 kg including a contingent of over 30% for the scientific instruments. The main payload of the BIRD micro-satellite is the newly developed Hot Spot Recognition System. It's a dual-channel instrument for middle and thermal IR imagery based on cooled MCT line detectors. The miniaturization by integrated detector/cooler assemblies provides a highly efficient design. A complement for the hot spot detection is the wide-angle stereo-scanner WAOSS-B. It is a hardware re-use dedicated to vegetation and cloud assessment in the visible spectral range. Besides the main objective of hot spot detection the mission has to answer several technological questions of the operation of cooled detectors in space, special aspects of their adaptation to the satellite platform as well as their calibration.

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Ingo Walter, Klaus Briess, Wolfgang Baerwald, Wolfgang Skrbek, and Fredrich Schrandt "The BIRD payload platform", Proc. SPIE 4881, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites VI, (8 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462581

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