Near-real-time forest fires monitoring system: Case study with a manned aerial vehicle within the OSIRIS project

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2008, Pages 145-152

  Reusen, I ^a   Lewyckyj, N ^a   Adriaensen, S ^a   Biesemans, J ^a   Everaerts, J ^a   Kempenaers, S ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Forest fires; Geo referenced; High spatial resolution; Infrared; Near real time; Open architecture; PEGASUS; Remote sensing; Risk and disaster management; Sensor web; UAV; Video

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; GROUND CONTROL; INFRARED IMAGERY; MONITORING SYSTEM; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58849098101     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/FIVA080151     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. OSIRIS "Open architecture for Smart and Interoperable networks in Risk management based on In-situ Sensors" (Contract 0033475), Annex I
2. OSIRIS website: http://www.osiris-fp6.eu
3. The International Charter Space and Major Disasters website http://www.disasterscharter.org/
4. Gitas, I. Z., Polychronaki, A., Katagis T., Mallinis, G., Contribution of remote sensing to disaster management activities: A case study of the large fires in the Peloponnese, Greece, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 6, 20 March 2008, 1847-1853
5. Nirupama, Simonovic, S.P., Role of Remote Sensing in Disaster Management, ICLR Research Paper Series - No. 21
6. thEARSeL SIG IS Workshop, Bruges, Belgium, edited by I. Reusen
7. CEOS website: http://www.ceos.org
8. PEGASUS website: http://www.pegasus4europe.com/pegasus/index.htm
9. DARPA's VULTURE program website: http://www.darpa.mil/BAA/SN07- 38.html