Title :
Enhanced cooperative filter for wildfire monitoring
Author :
Zhongjie Lin;Hugh H. T. Liu
Author_Institution :
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, ON, M3h 5T6 Canada
Abstract :
This paper proposes a multi-UAV based wildfire monitoring algorithm to estimate fire rate of spread and therefore to further assess fire growth through fire front contour estimation. The proposed algorithm allows for convergent estimation with reasonable accuracy. It is achieved by online position and temperature measurements from a fleet of UAVs. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated in an independent fire simulation environment.
Keywords :
"Monitoring","Estimation","Temperature measurement","Vehicles","Mathematical model","Vehicle dynamics","Covariance matrices"
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control (CDC), 2015 IEEE 54th Annual Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2015.7402681
