Advanced digital fireball observatories: Enabling the expansion of the desert fireball network

© 2014 IEEE. The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) is an Australian Research Council project designed to track fireballs over approximately one third of Australia. Meteorites with a known orbit, detected and recovered through fireball networks such as the DFN, provide information about the formation and history of the Solar System. The requirements and design of an Advanced Digital Fireball Observatory (ADFO) are presented alongside the design challenges and results of field testing. The deployment of over 60 ADFOs will allow the construction of a flexible continental scale planetary science installation producing high quality all-sky data for meteorite recovery and other uses.

Citation

Howie, R. and Paxman, J. and Bland, P. and Towner, M. and Cupák, M. and Sansom, E. 2014. Advanced digital fireball observatories: Enabling the expansion of the desert fireball network, in Proceedings of the 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), Aug 16-23 2014. Bejing: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Source Title

2014 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSI GASS 2014

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929859

ISBN

9781467352253

School

Department of Applied Geology

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46686

Collection

Curtin Research Publications