Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs
- 10 August 2005
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Frequent updates concerning the progress of a forest fire are essential for effective and safe fire fighting. Since a forest fire is typically inaccessible by ground vehicles due to mountainous terrain, small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as a promising means of monitoring large forest fires. We present an effective UAV path planning algorithm utilizing infrared images that are collected on-board in real- time. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our path planning algorithm in realistic scenarios, we simulated the propagation of a forest fire with the EMBYR model. A new cooperative control mission concept is indroduced where multiple Low- Altitude, Short-Endurance (LASE) UAVs are used for fire monitoring. By emplying multiple UAVs, the effectiveness of the mission in terms of information update rate can be improved dramatically.Keywords
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