SLIDE 1 FireSat – A UK-Africa collaboration for enhanced detection
- f fires using nanosatellite technology
12th December 2017
SLIDE 2 Presentation outline
- Project partners
- International Partnership Programme
- Project breakdown
- Knowledge Transfer
- FireSat
- background
- Platform
- Payload
- Constellation
- Development timelines
- The Advanced Fire Information System
- Programme impact
SLIDE 3
UK-Africa collaboration
SLIDE 4 Introduction to the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme
- 5-year, £152 million programme
- UK space sector’s research and
innovation strengths to deliver sustainable economic or societal benefit to emerging and developing economies around the world
- Projects run by industry,
academia, and non-profit entities
- Uses space solutions to make
positive impact on those living in international partner countries
developing nations to respond to specific challenges
SLIDE 5
Project outline
UK Africa Collaboration
UN SDG FireSat Platform Platform Hardware Integration Payload Integration of data with AFIS Launch Knowledge Transfer MSc/PhD Missions Lab & Training M & E
SLIDE 6 Project outline Phase 1 – Technology Demonstration
Phase 2 – Scale up
SLIDE 7
Knowledge transfer – Missions Lab
SLIDE 8 Knowledge transfer – MSc
- UN Sustainable Development Goals to illustrate the
application of satellite applications
- EO, Navigation and Communications, Data Science,
Entrepreneurship & Space Systems (optional)
- Aims to encourage students towards creating new
services and companies
- Course is well suited to markets without a mature
space sector
- Remote learning and CPD
- Available from September 2019 – applications from
early 2019
- Joint PhD Programmes also available
SLIDE 9 FireSat - background
damages from global wildfires are increasing annually
weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 of Earths vegetated surface, which results in an 18.7% increase in global average fire season length
- Doubling of global burnable
area and increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons (53.4% from 1996 to 2013
Average annual burned area between 1960 and 2000
SLIDE 10
FireSat - background
The ‘fire continent’ - 70% of total global wildfires
Global climate vulnerability to wildfires CSIR national veld fire risk assessment report
30.6% South Africa at Extreme risk 31.3% South Africa at High risk
SLIDE 11
Early detection
Fire detection methods – variation in spatial and temporal resolution Early detection
SLIDE 12
FireSat platform
SLIDE 13
FireSat platform
30Whr 10Mbps 3U EPS 3U Body OBC w/ GPS
SLIDE 14 FireSat platform
- On-Board Computer (OBC)
- UHF Transceiver (UTRX)
- High-Speed S-Band
Transmitter (HSTX)
FlatSat testing – November 2017
SLIDE 15
FireSat payload
Grass fire at 8 km
SLIDE 16 FireSat constellation
1 10 100 1000 10000 0.1 1 10 100 1000 Spatial resolution (m) Temporal resolution (revisit rate, hours) Used by AFIS Not used by AFIS
GOES MSG Terra/Aqua Landsat 8 MetOp TET-1/BIROS 1 x FireSat 6 x FireSat
Temporal vs Spatial resolution for fire detection from space
SLIDE 17
Design Review November 2016
Design Review February 2017
Engineering, Design, and Assembly
March 2017
and Testing
Jan 2018
May 2018
Development timelines
SLIDE 18
The Advanced Fire Information System
SLIDE 19
Programme impact
SLIDE 20 Thank you for listening
Pam Anderson Systems Engineer
enquiries@clyde.space
