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CIRC  

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  • CIRC is an infrared demonstration instrument of JAXA with state-of-the-art COTS (Commercial-off-the-Shelf) technology developed at MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation). The camera is equipped with an uncooled infrared array detector (microbolometer). The main objective of CIRC is to provide infrared imagery for wildfire detection. CIRC is mounted onto the spacecraft pointing to the right of the flight path at an off-nadir angle of 30º. CIRC is a small size instrument with a mass of ~ 3 kg. Wildfires are one of the major and chronic disasters affecting many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and indications are that this will get worse with global warming and climate change. Wildfire detection is one of the main goals in the Sentinel Asia project and to share this information in near real-time across the Asia-Pacific region. (en)

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  • 2021-02-26 13:12:58.0 [mmorahan] Insert Concept add broader relation (CIRC [3ebe0137-dcd0-41d1-96f5-3966884431c6,560887] - Cameras [d322ae9d-bde0-448f-948d-777aef096eb6,545823]);
  • 2021-02-26 13:15:48.0 [mmorahan] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: Compact Infrared Camera language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: CIRC is an infrared demonstration instrument of JAXA with state-of-the-art COTS (Commercial-off-the-Shelf) technology developed at MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation). The camera is equipped with an uncooled infrared array detector (microbolometer). The main objective of CIRC is to provide infrared imagery for wildfire detection. CIRC is mounted onto the spacecraft pointing to the right of the flight path at an off-nadir angle of 30º. CIRC is a small size instrument with a mass of ~ 3 kg. Wildfires are one of the major and chronic disasters affecting many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and indications are that this will get worse with global warming and climate change. Wildfire detection is one of the main goals in the Sentinel Asia project and to share this information in near real-time across the Asia-Pacific region. language code: en); insert WeightedRelation (id: null related concept uuid: e4009ba2-7e5d-41ea-b4f9-c45788ad8589 relationship type: null relationship value: null generated by: null);
  • 2022-03-16 14:04:03.0 [mmorahan] update Definition (https://earth.esa.int/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/a/alos-2 https://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/ef/calet/ https://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/ef/calet/pdf/calet_20140314.pdf); insert WeightedRelation (id: null related concept uuid: b86cb129-67f0-40e1-91c4-5b4755cd8477 relationship type: null relationship value: null generated by: null);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/3ebe0137-dcd0-41d1-96f5-3966884431c6

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