Autonomous Forest Fire Detection
conference paper
Forest fire detection is a very important issue in the pre-suppression process. Timely detection allows the suppression units to reach the fire in its initial stages and this will reduce the suppression costs considerably. The autonomous forest fire detection principle is based on temporal contrast differences with the natural background and spatial characteristics of the smoke plume. The images are obtained from multiple staring black and white video cameras installed on a small platform in a tower. To reduce the bandwidth of the needed communication link with the operational centre, all processing is performed locally at the tower, The detection algorithm sends alarm messages with the co-ordinates of the location of the fire automatically and on request images or system status are sent.
TNO Identifier
95141
Publisher
ADAI - Associacao para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinamica Industrial
Source title
Proceedings of the III International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 14th Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology held in Luso, Coimbra, Portugal on 16-20 November 1998, Vol.II
Editor(s)
Viegas, D.X.
Place of publication
Coimbra, Portugal
Pages
2003-2012
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