VISIR-SAT / DIEGOSat

Schultz, J. A. (2025). DIEGOSat: Deutsche KMU-Spitzentechnologie für die Bereitstellung wichtiger Erdbeobachtungsdaten im thermalen Infrarot. Raumfahrt Concret, Sonderheft.

Wüst, H. (2025). Vom Mond zur Erde: Raumfahrt trifft Industrie. Raumfahrt Concret, Sonderheft.

Oertel, D., Halle, W., Hartmann, M., Rienow, A., & Schultz, J. (2023). A prospective Thermal InfraRed small satellite constellation with fast revisit times. In Proceedings of the IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation (Paper No. IAA-B14-0203).

Schultz, J. A., & Rienow, A. (2020). DIEGO: Ein ISS-Projekt für die „Klimawende“? Raumfahrt Concret, 112(2).

Schultz, J., Hartmann, M., Heinemann, S., Janke, J., Jürgens, C., Oertel, D., Ruecker, G., Thonfeld, F., & Rienow, A. (2019). DIEGO: A multi-spectral thermal mission for Earth observation on the International Space Station. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 53(2), 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2019.1698318.

Ruecker, G., Menz, G., Heinemann, S., Hartmann, M., & Oertel, D. (2015). VISIR-SAT – A prospective micro-satellite based multi-spectral thermal mission for land applications. ISPRS International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XL-7/W3, 1283–1289. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-W3-1283-2015.

BIRD

Ruecker, G., Tiemann, J., Leimbach, D., & Lorenz, E. (2013, April 7–12). Assessment of the Fire Radiative Power (FRP) retrieved by BIRD and the MODIS active fire products from near coincident data acquisitions. Poster presented at the EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria.

Zhukov, B., Lorenz, E., Oertel, D., Wooster, M., & Roberts, G. (2006). Spaceborne detection and characterization of fires during the bi-spectral infrared detection (BIRD) experimental small satellite mission (2001–2004). Remote Sensing of Environment, 100(1), 29–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2005.09.019.

Zhukov, B., Briess, K., Lorenz, E., Oertel, D., & Skrbek, W. (2005). Detection and analysis of high-temperature events in the BIRD mission. Acta Astronautica, 56(1–2), 65–71. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2004.09.014.

FireBIRD

Fischer, C., Halle, W., Säuberlich, T., Frauenberger, O., Hartmann, M., Oertel, D., & Terzibaschian, T. (2022). Small satellite tools for high-resolution infrared fire monitoring. Journal of Imaging, 8(2), 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8020049.

Halle, W., Fischer, C., Oertel, D., & Zhukov, B. (2022). The capabilities of dedicated small satellite infrared missions for the quantitative characterization of wildfires. Journal of Imaging, 8(3), 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8030078.

Paugam, R., Wooster, M. J., Mell, W., Rochoux, M. C., Filippi, J.-B., Rücker, G., Frauenberger, O., Lorenz, E., Schroeder, W., Main, B., & Govender, N. (2021). Orthorectification of helicopter-borne high resolution experimental burn observation from infra red handheld imagers. Remote Sensing, 13(23), 4913. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13234913.

Ruecker, G., Lorenz, E., Hoffmann, A. A., Oertel, D., Tiemann, J., & Halle, W. (2011, May). High resolution active fire monitoring for global change analysis: The upcoming FireBIRD satellite mission. In Proceedings of the 5th International Wildland Fire Conference, Sun City, South Africa.

Gas Flares

Caseiro, A., Rücker, G., Tiemann, J., Leimbach, D., Lorenz, E., Frauenberger, O., & Kaiser, J. W. (2018). Persistent Hot Spot Detection and Characterisation Using SLSTR. Remote Sensing, 10(7), 1118. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071118.

Ruecker, G., Schroeder, W., Lorenz, E., Kaiser, J., & Caseiro, A. (2016, May 10). Detection and characterization of industrial gas flares using FireBIRD, BIRD, S-NPP VIIRS and MODIS sensors. Poster presented at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. https://lps16.esa.int/page_session190.php.