Forest fire monitoring system based on aerial image

Abstract

Since natural disaster annually leads to casualties and property damages, developments for ICT-based disaster management techniques are fostering to minimize economic and social losses. For this reason, it is essential to develop a customized response technology for a natural disaster. In this paper, we introduce a smart-eye platform which is developed for disaster recognition and response. In addition, we propose a deep-learning based forest fire monitoring technique, which utilizes images acquired from an unmanned aerial vehicle with an optical sensor. Via training for image set of past forest fires, the proposed deep-learning based forest fire monitoring technique is designed to be able to make human-like judgement for a new input image automatically whether forest fire exists or not. Through simulation results, the algorithm architecture and detection accuracy of the proposed scheme is verified. By applying the proposed automatic disaster recognition technique to decision support system for disaster management, we expect to reduce losses caused by disasters and costs required for disaster monitoring and response.