Civil Applications of National Satellites

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Jan 2002

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IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,

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For over thirty years, the United States Air Force has employed infrared surveillance for missile warning purposes in support of peace. The Defense Support Program, currently employed in this way, consists of a constellation of satellites that provide civil-oriented, peace preserving infrared surveillance. Such civil applications include monitoring parched areas for wind-whipped brush fires or lightning-initiated forest fires that consume many acres of timber and threaten populated areas. Other applications include the similar monitoring of static, infrared-sensed heat sources including volcanoes and the plumes of acrid smoke produced when the volcanoes are active. This paper will address these important missions that can be performed by the national infrared surveillance satellite constellations, furthering the peace of the world in ways never envisioned by their creators 30 years ago.

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