An Unmanned Aircraft System for Automatic Forest Fire Monitoring and Measurement

The paper presents an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), consisting of several aerial vehicles and a central station, for forest fire monitoring. Fire monitoring is defined as the computation in real-time of the evolution of the fire front shape and potentially other parameters related to the fire prop...

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Published in:Journal of intelligent & robotic systems 2012, Vol.65 (1-4), p.533-548
Main Authors: Merino, Luis, Caballero, Fernando, Martínez-de-Dios, J. Ramiro, Maza, Iván, Ollero, Aníbal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerials
Artificial Intelligence
Blimps
Control
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
Fires
Forest fires
Infrared
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics
Monitoring
Robotics
Unmanned aircraft
Vehicles
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Summary:The paper presents an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), consisting of several aerial vehicles and a central station, for forest fire monitoring. Fire monitoring is defined as the computation in real-time of the evolution of the fire front shape and potentially other parameters related to the fire propagation, and is very important for forest fire fighting. The paper shows how an UAS can automatically obtain this information by means of on-board infrared or visual cameras. Moreover, it is shown how multiple aerial vehicles can collaborate in this application, allowing to cover bigger areas or to obtain complementary views of a fire. The paper presents results obtained in experiments considering actual controlled forest fires in quasi-operational conditions, involving a fleet of three vehicles, two autonomous helicopters and one blimp.
ISSN:0921-0296
1573-0409
DOI:10.1007/s10846-011-9560-x