iForestFire is integral because it is based on three different types of data:
- Real-time video data – Digital video stream is used in both system modes, the automatic one and manual one. In automatic mode the video stream is a source of images for automatic forest fire detection. In manual mode the video stream is used for distant video presence and distant video inspection.
- Real time meteorological data –The meteorological data are used by the post-processing unit for false alarm reduction, but also for forest fire risk calculation during the monitoring phase and fire spread estimation during the fire fighting phase.
- GIS (Geographical Information System) database – stores information on pure geographical data (elevations, road locations, water resources etc.), and all other relevant information related to a geographic position, like fire history, rain-water resource locations, land cover – land use, soil characteristics, local forest corridor map, tourist routes and similar. This data are used for user friendly camera pan/tilt control but also they are quite useful for fire fighting management activities. GIS data are also important for Simulatin Mode. This mode is used for forest fire behavior modeling and forest fire spread simulation.
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iForestFire is intelligent because in its automatic mode, the forest fire detection is based on various advanced image processing, image analyzes and image understanding algorithms. Algorithms include lot of procedures derived from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. iForestFire software organization is based on agent architecture. Intelligent software agents are responsible for image collecting, image and data storing, sensors integrity testing, image preprocessing, image processing, image post-processing, pre-alarm and alarm generation.
The system interface is user friendly. All iForestFire modules and components could be reached and administrated through dynamic and interactive Web pages where real time video and meteorological data are shown together with GIS data and user friendly interface for camera pan/tilt/zoom camera control when the system is in manual mode.
iForestFire user interface has two screens - the main control screen and the camera screen:
The main control screen at the has on its left side the Web GIS frame, and on its right side the menu for opening cameras windows, meteorological and video archive.
Each camera has its own control group consisting of camera control actions, three ways of video archive search and powerfully meteorological archive data search.
The camera screen has few separate parts including the live video window, live meteorological data, virtual commands for camera manual control, setup screen, geo-referenced map for user friendly camera control and activation of video recorder.
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