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Spaceflight Version of CFI
Completed
Description
Spaceflight Version of the Compact Fire Imager (CFI), which will deliver unsaturated multi-spectral measurements at high spatial resolution.
Benefits
Enhances the capabilities for existing science instruments for monitoring pre-fire, active-fire, and post-fire situations, reduces the power and mass of these instruments, and enables unprecedented observations in support of wildfire science through distributed observing systems and the information technologies needed for their support.
Details
| Technology area | Sensors and Instruments > Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors |
| Program | FireSense Technology |
| Lead organization | Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD |
| Start date | 2024-06-03 |
| End date | 2025-09-30 |
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