OroraTech & Katastrophenschutz Havelland: Keeping the Forests of Brandenburg Safe from Space
Havelland district in Germany teams up with OroraTech to protect forests and predict wildfires in Brandenburg, Germany.
OroraTech & SOPFEU Working Together to Protect the Unique Forests of Quebec from Wildfires
Canadian fire protection service SOPFEU collaborates with OroraTech to improve their fire detection system and monitor wildland fires from space.
On a Mission To Save the Niassa Special Reserve: Home of the Last Great Elephant Population
Half a world away and far from the media spotlight, Mozambique was in flames too and has been suffering drastic forest loss since the turn of the century. Combined with agricultural expansion and development, fires have reduced this land’s tree cover by 3.52 million hectares – an area larger than Belgium.
The FOREST Series:
OroraTech Goes To Glasgow
After finishing the development of the FOREST payload, OroraTech travels to Glasgow to assemble the camera system into a CubeSat, that later will be launched into space.
The FOREST Series:
Final Integration
Read about the different phases in satellite development OroraTech went through during their four final months of working on the FOREST mission.
The FOREST Series:
How To Build A Satellite
FOREST stands for Forest Observation and Recognition Experimental Smallsat Thermal Detector – say that five times fast! The idea was to build a new generation hyperspectral thermal camera that is attached to a powerful processing unit.
Servus From Munich!
New experts on board, first satellite launching, big things ahead – what have we been up to?
