UNIFORM Project

Images taken by UNIFORM-1

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The thermal infrared camara mounted an uncooled microbolometer (BOL) and the visible camera (VIS) were boarded on UNIFORM-1. The thermal infrared camera provides us images in which high temperature object appears brighter than that of low temperature. The visible camera, which has the same field of view as the thermal infrared cameras' field of view, helps identification of geographical location of wildfires.

Image of Coburg Island, Canada (on July 9th 2014)

Images are taken at 12:04 PM (JST) above the Arctic. Coburg Island is in the pictures.

Image 1:Image taken by a visible camera

 

Image 2:Image taken by an infrared camera

 

Image 3:Google Earth image on the same area as Image 1 and 2

 

Images taken by the VIS (on June 25th 2014)

The visible camera successfully took images of Korea when the satellite passed over the Sea of Japan.

Image 1:

(Top) Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Korea is in the image
(Bottom) The same place in Google Maps

 

Image 2:

(Top) Daegu, Guji-myeon, South Korea is in the VIS camera image
(Bottom) The same place in Google Maps

 

UNIFORM-1 pass when the images were taken. The black circle shows the exact place when the images were taken.

 

The first image taken by the BOL (on May 28th 2014)

The first image was taken at (11:52AM JST) when UNIFORM1 was passing above the ocean near Chiba, Japan.Lake Kasumigaura, Tone　River and Cape Inubo are clearly shown in the image.

 

Comparison between the image and Google Map