An intelligent system for automatic fire detection in forests

The use of smoke-analysis is described for fire detection by means of suitably placed standard TV cameras. The paper first gives the smoke detection technique and discusses a method to obtain a suitable description of the scene. Then the intelligent part of the system is described and the methods and heuristics to speed-up the decision process discussed. The sub-system devoted to the translation of the sensor data into a form suitable for logic manipulation is then presented. Finally some results and future trends are reported