Xiomas Technologies

Xiomas Technologies is a small Ann Arbor, Michigan engineering firm founded in 2008 by John Green, whose career in airborne sensor development stretches back to the 1980s and 90s at Daedalus Enterprises. Xiomas was launched on the strength of a NASA SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase I/II award aimed at cutting the operating cost of airborne optical imaging by a factor of 2-3x through increased coverage rate and reduced flight time. That effort produced the company's first product, the Wide Area Imager (WAI), a multi-band step-stare optical system combining high spatial resolution with a very wide, programmable field of view for wildfire mapping and environmental remote sensing.

Building on the step-stare concept, Xiomas has since developed a family of thermal and multispectral imaging instruments intended to bridge airborne testing with future spaceborne deployment. From 2013-2017 the company developed the Thermal Mapping Airborne Simulator (TMAS), designed to simulate performance from low Earth polar orbit in a manner comparable to NASA's MODIS instrument, with a Sequential Phase II NASA award in 2022 funding plans to fly systems to stratospheric and low-Earth-orbit altitudes. From 2019-2023, additional NASA SBIR funding supported the Three Band IR Detector (TBIRD) program, targeting a low-cost, multi-layered constellation concept spanning satellites, high-altitude solar aircraft, stratospheric balloons, and low-altitude aircraft for global fire-intensity and thermal-feature measurement.

In 2023, Xiomas acquired the Daedalus Scanners product line - the historic multispectral scanner heritage of Daedalus Enterprises - and is developing a new Airborne Multispectral Sensor (AMS) for commercial global use. The company's engineering team includes veterans of space-based instrument optics and systems engineering, along with the former Principal Investigator Emeritus of Daedalus Enterprises.

Xiomas has worked with NASA, the USDA Forest Service, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Navy, and INTA (Spain's national aerospace institute), and collaborates with organizations including Resonon, QmagiQ, INO (Canada), NV5 Geospatial, ST Airborne Systems, and American Aerospace Technologies Inc. Its instruments have supported wildfire mapping, environmental compliance monitoring, and heritage multispectral remote-sensing missions worldwide.