Analysis Of Fire And Non-fire Signatures For Discriminating Fire Detection

Forest Fire Detection by Satellites for Fire Control

Infrared sensors on board satellites have been widely used to collect statistics on fires, but not for fire control. Since the polar-orbiting satellites cover the northern Earth latitudes several times a day, their data are particularly suitable for detecting boreal forest fires. Currently, radiometers on board NOAA and ERS-2 satellites are used for operational fire management in Finland. Telef...

Fight fire with fire

Since our hunter–gatherer ancestors began to develop agriculture more than 10,000 years ago, farmers have been battling with Nature to protect their cultivated plants against pests and diseases. Organisms from all kingdoms of life—from mammals and insects to bacteria, fungi and viruses—are attracted by the easy pickings that large fields of plants represent, and farmers have sought to contain t...

Multiple Type Discriminating Mine Fire Sensors

Multiple Type Discriminating Mine Fire Sensors J.C. Edwards, R.A. Franks, G.F. Friel, C.P. Lazzara, and J.J. Opferman NIOSH/Pittsburgh Research Laboratory Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0070 ABSTRACT It was determined that a selection of different types of fire sensors could be used to discriminate mine fires from nuisance emissions produced by diesel equipment. A neural network (NN) was developed for ap...

An Automatic Detection of the Fire Smoke Through Multispectral Images

One of the consequences of a fire is smoke. Occasionally, monitoring and detection of this smoke can be a solution to prevent occurrence or spreading a fire. On the other hand, due to the destructive effects of the smoke spreading on human health, measures can be taken to improve the level of health services by zoning and monitoring its expansion process. In this paper, an automated method is p...

Micro Forest Fire Detection