Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in bushfire management: Challenges and opportunities

S Partheepan, F Sanati, J Hassan - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intensity and frequency of bushfires have increased significantly, destroying property
and living species in recent years. Presently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology …

A survey on monitoring of wild animals during fires using drones

S Ivanova, A Prosekov, A Kaledin - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Forest fires occur for natural and anthropogenic reasons and affect the distribution, structure,
and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Monitoring fires and their impacts on …

Wildland fire detection and monitoring using a drone-collected RGB/IR image dataset

X Chen, B Hopkins, H Wang, L O'Neill, F Afghah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current forest monitoring technologies including satellite remote sensing, manned/piloted
aircraft, and observation towers leave uncertainties about a wildfire's extent, behavior, and …

Overview and current status of remote sensing applications based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

G Pajares - Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is presently in continuous development at a rapid pace.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or more extensively Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) …

A survey on technologies for automatic forest fire monitoring, detection, and fighting using unmanned aerial vehicles and remote sensing techniques

C Yuan, Y Zhang, Z Liu - Canadian journal of forest research, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
Because of their rapid maneuverability, extended operational range, and improved
personnel safety, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with vision-based systems have great …

UAV-based forest fire detection and tracking using image processing techniques

C Yuan, Z Liu, Y Zhang - 2015 International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based forest fire detection and tracking
method is proposed. Firstly, a brief illustration of UAV-based forest fire detection and tracking …

Forest fire identification in uav imagery using x-mobilenet

A Namburu, P Selvaraj, S Mohan, S Ragavanantham… - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forest fires are caused naturally by lightning, high atmospheric temperatures, and dryness.
Forest fires have ramifications for both climatic conditions and anthropogenic ecosystems …

Multi-UAV planning for cooperative wildfire coverage and tracking with quality-of-service guarantees

E Seraj, A Silva, M Gombolay - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been
commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking …

Coordinated control of uavs for human-centered active sensing of wildfires

E Seraj, M Gombolay - 2020 American control conference (ACC …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fighting wildfires is a precarious task, imperiling the lives of engaging firefighters and those
who reside in the fire's path. Firefighters need online and dynamic observation of the firefront …

Fault-tolerant time-varying elliptical formation control of multiple fixed-wing UAVs for cooperative forest fire monitoring

Z Yu, Y Zhang, B Jiang, X Yu - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2021 - Springer
This paper investigates the cooperative forest fire monitoring problem of multiple fixed-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of actuator faults during the fire …