Remote fire detection method and implementation thereof
US5959589A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 2, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 28, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 2, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01Q3/04
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Systems and methods for thermal imagining are described. An apparatus includes a rotatable radial scanning antenna. The systems and methods provide advantages in that fires can be detected, and their positions determined, over substantial distances and through obscurants such as smoke and/or rain.
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