An Unmanned Aircraft System for Automatic Forest Fire Monitoring and Measurement

Authors:
Luis Merino;Fernando Caballero;J. Ramiro Martínez-De-Dios;Iván Maza;Aníbal Ollero
Affiliations:
Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain 41013;Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain 41092;Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain 41092;Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain 41092;Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain 41092 and Center for Advanced Aerospace Technology (CATEC), Parque Tecnológico y Aeronáutico de Andalucía, La ...
Venue:
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

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.