Airborne optical and thermal remote sensing for wildfire detection and monitoring

RS Allison, JM Johnston, G Craig, S Jennings - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
For decades detection and monitoring of forest and other wildland fires has relied heavily on
aircraft (and satellites). Technical advances and improved affordability of both sensors and …

Use of night vision goggles for aerial forest fire detection

L Tomkins, T Benzeroual, A Milner… - … journal of wildland …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Night-time flight searches using night vision goggles have the potential to improve early
aerial detection of forest fires, which could in turn improve suppression effectiveness and …

Directional statistics-based quality measure for spotlight color images

F Kerouh, D Ziou, Q Jiang - Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2020 - Springer
The present paper addresses a new problem related to measuring the quality of color
spotlight images. Its primary aim is to raise the limitation problem of available cameras to …

[PDF][PDF] Report on the Pembroke NVD-Aided Aerial Forest Fire Detection Trials held April 22-25, 2010

T Andriychuk, L Tomkins, JE Zacher, M Ballagh… - 2010 - eecs.yorku.ca
Early detection of forest fires, while still in their emergent stages, could greatly improve
suppression effectiveness and reduce overall costs. When used for aerial detection patrols …