ABB Inc. Quebec
Miniaturized Blackbody Technology Development for Onboard Calibration of Fire Diagnosis Sensor — The object of the project is to develop an on-board compact infrared radiometric calibration sub-system with the form, fit, and function of the future WildFireSat mission and the Educational Cubesat Open Source ( ECOS ) flight opportunity. This work will allow the use of commercial off-the-shelf infrared camera to accurately monitor the temperature of wild fires from 500 km and more in orbit. While Earth observation instruments operating in the infrared have flown kind of on-board temperature calibrator before, the unit for WildFireSat and for the ECOS demonstration requires to have particularly low mass and power consumption while offering a large area not affected by undesired external infrared radiation hitting its surface. Wild fires are one of the main concerns regarding the forest preservation, as they consume more than 2.4 million hectares of forest each year in Canada, generate the release of 20 million of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and can cause important property damage th