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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

NightHawk: A Low-Cost, Nighttime Light Wildfire Observation Platform and Its Radiometric Calibration.

Chase A Fuller, Steve Tammes, Philip Kaaret, Jun Wang, Carlton H Richey, Marc Linderman, Emmett J Ientilucci, Thomas Schnell, William Julstrom, Jarret McElrath and 3 more

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Chase A FullerDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7112-5562
Steve TammesDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2419-325X
Philip KaaretDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3638-0637
Jun WangDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7334-0490
Carlton H RicheyOperator Performance Laboratory, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA.
Marc LindermanDepartment of Geographical & Sustainability Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Emmett J IentilucciChester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3643-8245
Thomas SchnellOperator Performance Laboratory, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA.
William JulstromDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-6196-4206
Jarret McElrathDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-8437-7572
Will MeinersDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Jack KelleyDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-6092-8964
Francis MawandaDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

Funding

NASA 80NSSC21K1494University of Iowa, NASA 80NNSC21L1976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a low-cost prototype of a visible and near-infrared (VIS-NIR) remote sensing platform, optimized to detect and characterize natural flaming fire fronts from airborne nighttime light (NTL) observations, and its radiometric calibration. It uses commercially available CMOS sensor cameras and filters with roughly 100 nm bandwidths to effectively discriminate burning biomass from other sources of NTL, a critical ability for wildfire monitoring near populated areas. Our filter choice takes advantage of the strong potassium line emission near 770 nm present in natural flaming. The calibrated cameras operate at 20 ms of exposure time and boast radiance measurements with a sensitivity floor, depending on the filter, in the range 3-5 × 10-6 W m

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aircraft remote sensingfire detectionflamingmultiband imagingnighttime fire activitynighttime lightsradiometric calibrationwildfire

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PMID40218562
PMCPMC11990934

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