Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 351-360

  Casbeer, David W ^a,b   Kingston, Derek B ^a,b   Beard, Randal W ^a,b   Mc lain, Timothy W ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS COMPANY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest fire; Surveillance; Unmanned air vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991804238     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720500438480     Document Type: Article

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