Research for Science Art and Technology (RFSAT) Limited

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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: 1st May 2014 - 30th 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.

Details about the implementation of the fire detection system in the AF3 project can be found at the "Forest Wildfire Management" page where the technology behind the UAV-based photogrammetric 3D modelling and surveillance of forest wildfires has been detailed. The original embedded device integrated NIR micro-spectrometer connected to Raspberry PI Zero-W2 and deployed on an UAV. Since then also an Android application has been developed for use on smartphones that now supports all of the Ocean Optics micro-spectrometers and offers a variety of tools for diverse use case scenarios where such micro-spectrometers could be used.

The application is available on Google Play store  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PocketSpectro

Publications

  • Artur Krukowski and Emmanouela Vogiatzaki, „Aerial Detection of Forest Fires with Automated 3D Fuel Volume Estimation”, 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference (FBF''2019), Marseille (France), 29th of April to 3rd of May 2019.
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  • 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), 29th of March 2017.
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  • Artur Krukowski and Emmanouela Vogiatzaki, "Application of UAS in Forest Firefighting for Detecting Ignitions and 3D Fuel Volume Estimation", International Conference on Forest Fire Disaster Management (ICFFDM 2020) , Rome, Italy, 10-11 December 2020
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