SITHON: An airborne fire detection system compliant with operational tactical requirements

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1204-1220

  Kontoes, Charalabos ^a   Keramitsoglou, Iphigenia ^a   Sifakis, Nicolaos ^a   Konstantinidis, Paclos ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging system; Global Positioning System (GPS); Inertial Navigation System (INS); Thermal infrared uncooled camera; Wildland fires

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE IMAGING; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; FIRE DETECTION SYSTEMS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS (INS); UNCOOLED; VIDEO DATA STREAMS; WILDLAND FIRE;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING;

FIRES;

EID: 63849114107     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90201204     Document Type: Article

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