Performance Requirements for Airborne Infrared Forest Fire Surveillance EquipmentU.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest & Range Experiment Station, 1973 - Fire prevention - 7 pages |
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adjacent aircraft altitudes ance requirements angular resolution areas background temperatures block diagram CALIBRATION SOURCES channel density detect and locate DOPPLER edges and flaming equipment FFSE Field of View fire detection fire location fire mapping fire perimeter Fire Scan fire surveillance fire's flaming fronts flight Forest Fire Control Forest Fire Laboratory Gray scale Hirsch hot target marker illus Image large fires imagery in-flight including smoldering edges infrared interpretation of fire large forest fire Locate small mark small fire meet the requirements miles per hour MONITOR mrd IFOV MTF curve nadir navigation system nearest 50 feet Normal range Northern Forest Fire number operation overscan percent modulation PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS PULSE RADAR radiometric real-time Remote Sensing RESET Roll stabilization scanner signals Slant Range Correction small fire targets Small forest fire spectral band spectral discrimination spot fires square miles Target Alarm TARGET DISCRIMINATOR temperature sensitivity terrain TFOV thermal Total Field Transfer Function Velocity-to-Height Ratio wavelength