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Fireball light curves can give insight into the meteor ablation process which can be used to improve fireball trajectory and mass modelling. To this aim, the Desert Fireball Network (DFN) is developing a low cost add-on fireball radiometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Stuart R. G. Buchan , Robert M. Howie , Jonathan Paxman , Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix

The recovery of freshly fallen meteorites from tracked and triangulated meteors is critical to determining their source asteroid families. However, locating meteorite fragments in strewn fields remains a challenge with very few meteorites…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Robert I. Citron , Peter Jenniskens , Christopher Watkins , Sravanthi Sinha , Amar Shah , Chedy Raissi , Hadrien Devillepoix , Jim Albers

The challenges of multi-wavelength astrophysics require new outlooks from those appropriate to traditional astronomy. The next generation of research scientists must be trained to exploit the potentiality now being provided for the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerry Gilmore

Despite ablation and drag processes associated with atmospheric entry of meteoroids were a subject of intensive study over the last century, little attention was devoted to interpret the observed fireball terminal height. This is a key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-09 Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez , Maria Gritsevich , Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez

Microlensing is generally thought to probe planetary systems only out to a few Einstein radii. Microlensing events generated by bound planets beyond about 10 Einstein radii generally do not yield any trace of their hosts, and so would be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Andrew Gould

For centuries extremely-long grazing fireball displays have fascinated observers and inspired people to ponder about their origins. The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) is the largest single fireball network in the world, covering about one…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 P. M. Shober , T. Jansen-Sturgeon , E. K. Sansom , H. A. R. Devillepoix , M. C. Towner , P. A. Bland , M. Cupák , R. M. Howie , B. A. D. Hartig

Earth is constantly being bombarded with material from space. Most of the natural material end up being dust grains that litter the surface of Earth, but larger bodies are known to impact every few decades. The most recent large impact was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Ravi teja Nallapu , Jekan Thangavelautham

Meteors carry important and indispensable information about the interplanetary environment, which can be used to understand the origin and evolution of our solar system. We have developed a Multi-station Meteor Monitoring ($\rm M^3$) system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Z. Li , H. Zou , J. Liu , J. Ma , X. Zhao , X. Li , Z. Tu , B. Zhang , R. Wang , S. Wang , Marco Xue

This article presents a new tool for the automatic detection of meteors. Fast Meteor Detection Toolbox (FMDT) is able to detect meteor sightings by analyzing videos acquired by cameras onboard weather balloons or within airplane with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Clara Ciocan , Mathuran Kandeepan , Adrien Cassagne , Jeremie Vaubaillon , Fabian Zander , Lionel Lacassagne

Most of the meteor radioastronomical radars are backscatter radars which cover only a small area of the atmosphere. Therefore a daytime meteor flux models are based on sparse data collected by only a few radar systems. To solve this issue,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Jakub Kakona , Pavel Kovar , Martin Kakona

Meteoroids impacting the Earth on a daily basis are fragments of asteroids and comets. By studying fireballs produced during their disintegration in the atmosphere, we can gain information about their source regions and the properties of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Borovicka , P. Spurny , L. Shrbeny

Temporarily Captured Orbiters (TCOs) are Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) which make a few orbits of Earth before returning to heliocentric orbits. Only one TCO has been observed to date, 2006 RH120, captured by Earth for one year before escaping.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 David L. Clark , Pavel Spurný , Paul Wiegert , Peter Brown , Jiří Borovička , Ed Tagliaferri , Lukáš Shrbený

In recent years, increased wildfires have caused irreversible damage to forest resources worldwide, threatening wildlives and human living conditions. The lack of accurate frontline information in real-time can pose great risks to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Tai Yang , Shumeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Jialei Liu

Wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent, with potentially devastating consequences, including loss of life, infrastructure destruction, and severe environmental damage. Low Earth orbit satellites equipped with onboard sensors can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Brycen D. Pearl , Joshua G. Warner , Hang Woon Lee

Ship detection has been playing a significant role in the field of remote sensing for a long time but it is still full of challenges. The main limitations of traditional ship detection methods usually lie in the complexity of application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xue Yang , Hao Sun , Kun Fu , Jirui Yang , Xian Sun , Menglong Yan , Zhi Guo

Fireball observations from camera networks provide position and time information along the trajectory of a meteoroid that is transiting our atmosphere. The complete dynamical state of the meteoroid at each measured time can be estimated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Eleanor K. Sansom , Mark G. Rutten , Phillip A. Bland

We summarize the science opportunity, design elements, current and projected partner observatories, and anticipated science returns of the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON). AMON will link multiple current and future…

Meteoroid modelling of fireball data typically uses a one dimensional model along a straight line triangulated trajectory. The assumption of a straight line trajectory has been considered an acceptable simplification for fireballs, but it…

We present a cloud-based tool that uses drones and machine learning to help recover instrumentally observed meteorite falls. We showcase a collection of improvements made upon previous iterations of our system, as well as detail the…

The internet has brought about great change in the astronomical community, but this interconnectivity is just starting to be exploited for use in instrumentation. Utilizing the internet for communicating between distributed astronomical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. R. White , J. Wren , H. Davis , M. Galassi , D. Starr , W. T. Vestrand , P. Wozniak