{"id":5473,"date":"2024-04-18T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2024-08-02T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T20:08:56","slug":"flagstaff-team-advances-in-global-competition-with-proposal-for-fire-detecting-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/flagstaff-team-advances-in-global-competition-with-proposal-for-fire-detecting-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagstaff team advances in global competition with proposal for fire-detecting satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/28cf75a\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5568x3712+0+0\/resize\/1760x1174!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc1%2Fba%2Fa33c4b2d447491538c95ac3a701d%2Fiss069e015007-lrg.jpg\" alt=\"A NASA satellite captured this view of smoke from a wildfire in Nova Scotia in 2023. \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team proposes to put a \u2018constellation\u2019 of 90 small satellites into Earth orbit equipped with heat-seeking sensors built at Northern Arizona University. The network would continuously monitor wildfire-prone areas in parts of the Southwest including Flagstaff and the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knau.org\/knau-and-arizona-news\/2024-04-18\/flagstaff-team-advances-in-global-competition-with-proposal-for-fire-detecting-satellites\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at KNAU.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/prizes\/wildfire\/articles\/announcing-the-xprize-wildfire-space-based-qualified-teams\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More information about the XPRIZE Wildfire competition.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team proposes to put a \u2018constellation\u2019 of 90 small satellites into Earth orbit equipped with heat-seeking sensors built at Northern Arizona University. The network would continuously monitor wildfire-prone areas in parts of the Southwest including Flagstaff and the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska. Read the full article at KNAU. More information about the XPRIZE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[224,236,296,295],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-christopher-edwards","tag-david-trilling","tag-wildfire","tag-xprize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}