Techniques for reducing false alarms in infrared forest-fire automatic detection systems

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-131

  Ollero, A ^a   Arrue, B C ^a   Martinez, J R ^a   Murillo, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental engineering; Image processing; Infrared detectors; Pattern recognition; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TELEMETERING;

FALSE ALARMS; INFRARED CAMERAS;

FIRE DETECTORS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST FIRE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGERY;

EID: 0032695999     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00141-5     Document Type: Article

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