Mission requirements
Open the mission requirements page for the camera-level role, payload boundary, detector assumptions, and validation constraints.
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EmberScope project review index
A single route through the public AAO feasibility package: mission case, optical evidence, detector and radiometry budgets, payload concept, software, validation, operating model, cost evidence, and decision history.
Mission & requirements
The study starts with the search problem and the recorded working assumptions.
Mission decision packet
Open the mission decision packet for the survey-versus-spotter trade and the gates that steer optical maturation.
Requirements closeout checklist
Open the closeout checklist to see which stakeholder assumptions had to be recorded before trace restart work could proceed.
Stakeholder answer pack
Open the answer pack for the target-area, altitude, payload-branch, airframe, and authority questions.
Sign-off readiness matrix
Open the readiness matrix for consequences of the possible stakeholder answer sets.
Evidence intake ledger
Open the evidence ledger for the advisory source-note status and remaining vendor or validation evidence gaps.
Coverage sizing grid
Open the coverage sizing grid for the link between target area, payload count, and budget pressure.
Optical design
The optical pages separate baseline geometry, measured failures, and restart targets.
Optics hub
Open the optics hub for the current reference prescription, caveats, and links to trace artifacts.
Verified CAD downloads
Open the CAD download centre for deterministic, source-hashed review packages and explicit manufacturing-maturity boundaries.
Restart targets
Open the restart-target register for the 25 mm, 50 mm, and 200 mm trace cases and their readiness fields.
Optical baseline
Open the optical baseline for the reflective/freeform starting point and its design heritage.
Optical evaluation
Open the evaluation stack for spot, ray-fan, detector-energy, vignetting, tolerance, and manufacturability screens.
Multi-mirror candidates
Open the multi-mirror checkpoint for the obstruction-aware measurements on the four- through seven-mirror branches.
RFS-064 optimized architecture comparison
Open the four- through seven-mirror comparison for the completed 100 mm F/1.8 bounded negative results, common acceptance gates, and exact optimizer budgets.
RFS-065 P2 shortlist gate
Open the measured P2 shortlist gate for the zero-of-three result, candidate-specific deficits, and hard-gate-first selection policy.
Optical literature
Open the optical literature synthesis for the compact LWIR and freeform design sources used in the study.
Detector & radiometry
Detector choice and radiometric evidence are kept beside the optics.
Detector recommendation
Open the detector recommendation for the COTS thermal-core catalogue and selected custom-optics branch.
Detector path
Open the detector-path page for the current sensor integration route and data-access implications.
Radiometry and data integrity
Open the radiometry requirements for raw data, calibration state, and replayable evidence constraints.
Radiometry model
Open the small-hot-target model for the Planck-band contrast calculations used in later trade pages.
Bandpass trade
Open the bandpass trade for the LWIR-first decision and MWIR or dual-band upgrade cases.
Fire radiometry synthesis
Open the fire-radiometry synthesis for the mixed-pixel and threshold-policy findings.
Fire radiometry literature
Open the literature checkpoint for the paper-by-paper fire-detection and radiometry source status.
Payload concept
The physical package is tracked as an instrument payload, not just an optical diagram.
Payload allocation
Open the payload concept for the 150 mm envelope, sub-2 kg allocation, power, thermal, mount, and serviceability assumptions.
Assembly and manufacturing guidance
Open the payload assembly guide for the numbered make/buy inventory, datum strategy, service sequence, inspection gates, and manufacturing-release gaps.
Mechanical feasibility
Open the mechanical feasibility screen for package, mass, clipping, assembly, and environmental checks on the candidate set.
Software & pipeline
The detection workflow is documented from thermal frames to replayable alerts.
Onboard pipeline
Open the onboard pipeline for raw-frame intake, calibration state, geotagging, candidate detection, operator review, and exports.
Onboard compute
Open the compute-board trade for camera interfaces, raw-capture bandwidth, power, storage, timing, temperature, and the Gate-1 board recommendation.
End-to-end simulation
Open the end-to-end simulation for the combined target radiance, detector noise, optics, survey geometry, and false-positive rows.
Fire-camera merit metrics
Open the merit metrics for the camera-level scoring terms used to compare designs.
Calibration & validation
The evidence ladder keeps bench, dataset, and field claims distinct.
Calibration strategy
Open the calibration strategy for field references, drift checks, error gates, and calibration metadata.
Field-test ladder
Open the field-test plan for bench checks, surrogate targets, flight routes, and controlled-burn boundaries.
Dataset validation
Open the dataset validation plan for burn-held-out splits, false-positive scenes, radiometric TIFF handling, and mission metrics.
Operations & fleet
The operating model ties camera performance to revisit and coverage.
Survey model
Open the survey model for altitude, speed, swath, overlap, dwell, route spacing, and revisit calculations.
Payload capability and coverage
Open the fleet coverage model for per-drone coverage and payload-cost rollups from the current optics assumptions.
Mission survey video
Open the mission survey video for the narrated scan-mirror and pushbroom heritage briefing.
Mission survey storyboard
Open the mission survey storyboard for the ten-panel visual handoff plan.
Cost & procurement
Procurement pages remain research evidence, not an active vendor process.
Procurement path
Open the procurement plan for fabrication, assembly, quote gates, acceptance checks, and first-build allowances.
COTS baselines
Open the COTS baseline comparison for thermal-camera alternatives against the custom optical-head path.
COTS payload screen
Open the COTS payload screen for product-level gates against target, coverage, raw-data, and quote-ceiling assumptions.
COTS quote packet
Open the quote packet for the dormant vendor-evidence fields and acceptance gates.
COTS quote comparison
Open the quote comparison register for the scoring policy that would apply if vendor responses existed.
Process & decision history
Reviewers can inspect the file bundle, methodology, current summary, and daily work record.
Technical files
Open the technical files for prescriptions, manifests, geometry exports, source-of-truth files, and build-map artifacts.
Evidence summary
Open the evidence summary for the current review package and reference-design status.
Project risk register
Open the risk register for evidence-linked engineering risks, qualitative ratings, owners, and retirement paths.
Phase-gated roadmap
Open the roadmap for phase entry and exit evidence, the current chartered engineering position, and the AAO/RFS decision boundaries.
AI methodology and provenance
Open the methodology page for agent and human roles, revision and source-hash tracing, negative-result handling, and independent verification commands.
Questions Fable asked
Open the Fable review note for the recorded reframing question, its engineering consequence, and the boundary on what this one project observation establishes.
Compatibility redirect
Open the legacy outputs route to confirm older links resolve to the technical file bundle.
Engineering diary
Open the engineering diary for the dated automation and review-session work log.