Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3530-3535

  Casbeer, David W ^a   Beard, Randal W ^a   McLain, Timothy W ^a   Li, Sai Ming ^b   Mehra, Raman K ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS COMPANY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE FIGHTING; FOREST FIRES; UAV;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; FIRE HAZARDS; GROUND VEHICLES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; MOTION PLANNING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 23944491369     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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