Cooperative forest fire monitoring using multiple UAVs

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4875-4880

  Sujit, P B ^a,b   Kingston, Derek ^a,b   Beard, Randy ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FORESTRY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

HOTSPOT PERIMETER; MULTIPLE FOREST FIRES; SERVICE AGENTS;

FIRES;

FOREST FIRES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 62749168279     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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