A Review on Forest Fire Detection Techniques

Abstract

Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year, thousands of forest fires across the globe cause disasters beyond measure and description. This issue has been the research interest for many years; there are a huge amount of very well studied solutions available out there for testing or even ready for use to resolve this problem. Aim. This work will summarise all the technologies that have been used for forest fire detection with exhaustive surveys of their techniques/methods used in this application. Methods. A lot of methods and systems are available in the market and for research. The paper reviews all the methods and discusses examples of research experiment results and some market product methods for better understanding. Result. Each technique has its own advantages and disadvantages. A full discussions provided after each type. Conclusion. A full table is provided at the end to summarise a comparison between the four methods.

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“…Also, illustrated a detailed discussion on those methods together with showing the advantages and disadvantages of each method, and gave examples on some researches results. Additionally, his work focused on some market product methods, and presented a comprehensive comparison between the four methods reviewed including the cost, efficiency and practically, faulty alarms repetition, fire localizing accuracy, detection delay, fire behavior information, and if they can be used for other purposes [6]. Furthermore Waqas et al (2016), conducted also a survey on studies used various techniques implemented for the detection of forest fire, such as; optical sensors and camera surveillance, satellite based system, and wireless sensor networks.…”

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