Satellite Infrared (SIRE) Sensor Data Processing Perspective and Definition. Volume I.
Abstract
The Satellite Infrared (SIRE) Sensor sponsored by the Air Force's Space and Missile System Organization (SAMSO) is a program whose objectives are to obtain data to aid in the definition, evaluation, and design of an operational long wave-length infrared space surveillance system, e.g., the Deep Space Surveillance Satellite System (DSSS). The experiment will be conducted from a low-altitude, space-borne platform with a ten-to-twelve-month duration in the 1981 period. Data collected will aid in the definition of relevant target and spatial and temporal background signatures, resolve key space-based technology issues, and demonstrate the military potential of long wavelength infrared surveillance satellite concepts. RRI has extensive infrared technology background and has participated in data processing tasks on several SAMSO-sponsored space-based infrared background measurement programs such as the Celestial Mapping Program and the Earth Limb Measurements Program. Consequently, RRI was selected by SAMSO to provide a data processing perspective to the development of the SIRE sensor and establish requirements for the SIRE data processing and the system and operations for that processing. This activity, which began in 1976, has continued uninterupted to the present. An interim report which provides a review of RRI's work through March 1978 has already been issued.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA082427
Entities
People
- Ronald G. Cestaro
- Thomas Ciccarelli