FP7 - SEC "AF3"

Advanced Forest Fire Fighting

Funding program: SECURITY theme of the FP7

Research area: SEC-2013.4.1-6 "Preparedness for and management of large scale forest fires"

Time frame: 1^st May 2014 - 30^th July 2017

Participation: Subcontracting

More info: http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/185483_en.html and http://af3project.eu/

RFSAT activities include:

• Near Infrared (NIR) spectrometer-based detection of forest fire ignitions from micro-UAVs
• Large area 3D modelling from micro-UAV image/video observations in visual and thermal ranges.
• Real-time streaming of video from micro-UAVs as well as long range FPV flight control.
• Operation of autonomous swarms of micro-UAVs for cooperative mission execution.

Publications

• Artur Krukowski and Emmanouela Vogiatzaki, „Aerial Detection of Forest Fires with Automated 3D Fuel Volume Estimation”, 6^th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference (FBF'2019), Marseille (France), 29^th of April to 3^rd of May 2019.
  
• Artur Krukowski and Emmanouela Vogiatzaki, „UAV-based photogrammetric 3D modelling and surveillance of forest wildfires”, Workshop on “UAV & SAR: using drones in rescue operations”, ISA, Rome (Italy), 29^th of March 2017.