Communication Aspects in Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Early Detection of Forest Fires
Communication Aspects in Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Early Detection of Forest Fires

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a novel approach in using drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAV) for early detection of forest fires in rural areas (national parks). A special emphasize we give to the communication aspects between the UAV and the Crisis Management Centers (CMC), including the transmission of pictures and/or streaming video of the thermal and video cameras, and the fire alarm itself. In our approach, the UAV will implement a basic algorithm for autonomously forest fire detection. Most important, these alarms and the data associated with them should be transmitted as soon as possible to the CMC without human intervention. Because of the bad and sometimes missing communication connectivity in the rural areas, we will present our ideas for developing delay-tolerant network solutions and gossip protocols for hop-by-hop spreading of urgent sensor data and fire alarms.

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