The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery

© 2016 IEEE.The Desert Fireball Network is a sensor network on a continental scale, with the objective of recovering fresh meteorite falls and calculating associated heliocentric orbits. The network was first established in 2005 as a trial network of three (and later four) film camera observatories,...

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Main Authors: Paxman, J., Bland, Phil, Howie, R., Towner, M., Cupák, M., Devillepoix, H., Sansom, E.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51726
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author Paxman, J.
Bland, Phil
Howie, R.
Towner, M.
Cupák, M.
Devillepoix, H.
Sansom, E.
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Bland, Phil
Howie, R.
Towner, M.
Cupák, M.
Devillepoix, H.
Sansom, E.
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description © 2016 IEEE.The Desert Fireball Network is a sensor network on a continental scale, with the objective of recovering fresh meteorite falls and calculating associated heliocentric orbits. The network was first established in 2005 as a trial network of three (and later four) film camera observatories, which had immediate success with the successful recovery of meteorites in 2008 and 2010. The network was re-established in 2012 as a network of digital fireball observatories, and now comprises over 50 observatories with an observable area over 2.5 million square kilometres. The new digital network was validated at the very end of 2015, with the successful recovery of the Murrili meteorite from Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia. This paper describes the design of the observatories and network, and outlines a semi-automated data pipeline which handles nearly a petabyte of data per year.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-517262017-09-13T15:37:22Z The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery Paxman, J. Bland, Phil Howie, R. Towner, M. Cupák, M. Devillepoix, H. Sansom, E. © 2016 IEEE.The Desert Fireball Network is a sensor network on a continental scale, with the objective of recovering fresh meteorite falls and calculating associated heliocentric orbits. The network was first established in 2005 as a trial network of three (and later four) film camera observatories, which had immediate success with the successful recovery of meteorites in 2008 and 2010. The network was re-established in 2012 as a network of digital fireball observatories, and now comprises over 50 observatories with an observable area over 2.5 million square kilometres. The new digital network was validated at the very end of 2015, with the successful recovery of the Murrili meteorite from Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia. This paper describes the design of the observatories and network, and outlines a semi-automated data pipeline which handles nearly a petabyte of data per year. 2017 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51726 10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838631 restricted
spellingShingle Paxman, J.
Bland, Phil
Howie, R.
Towner, M.
Cupák, M.
Devillepoix, H.
Sansom, E.
The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
title The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
title_full The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
title_fullStr The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
title_full_unstemmed The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
title_short The desert fireball network: A sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
title_sort desert fireball network: a sensor network for meteorite tracking and recovery
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51726