Forest Fires: Proactive and Reactive Surveillance employing in-situ, aerial and space technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8795, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Katzis, Konstantinos ^a   Grondoudis, Andreas ^a   Boustras, George ^a   Papazoglou, Pierantonios ^b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Research Promotion Foundation   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Aerial Platforms; Fire Fighting; Forest Fires; Satellites; Surveillance; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PLATFORM; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; FIRE FIGHTING; FOREST FIRES; PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; SPACE TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

DEFORESTATION; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPACE PLATFORMS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; TOOLS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FIRES;

DEFORESTATION; FIRE FIGHTING; FOREST FIRES; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TOOLS;

EID: 84883719227     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2027599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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