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Name: Thermal Infrared Camera
Mission:
Application: Determine surface temperatures
Life:

Instrument Description

The SATIRIM camera is a compact and cost efficient camera based on an uncooled microbolometer detector operating in the LWIR spectral range (8-12.5μm). It offers the possibility to be used in a constellation of Smallsats for Earth Observation. It reaches a ground resolution down to 50m at a height of 500km and can measure temperatures with an absolute accuracy better than 1K.

Measurements in the thermal infrared spectrum offer the possibility to determine surface temperatures, allowing several applications in agriculture, forestry, urban infrastructure, natural hazards, water quality, defence etc. Focusing on agriculture there is a potential for predicting water stress in crops, irrigation scheduling, disease detection in plants etc. Two or three spectral bands in the 8-12.5μm range can be used to establish the temperature. The main end-user product is the evapo-transpiration map.