Iq Wireless Gmbh

Volker Mertens

Holger Vogel

Hartmut Neuss

Ekkehard Kürt

Andreas Jock

Jorg Knollenberg

Günter Gräser

Uwe Krane

Thomas Behnke

Disclosed are processes for the centralised monitoring of territories to recognize forest and surface fires. A swiveling and tiltable camera installed at a monitoring site supplies images of overlapping observation sectors. In each observation sector a sequence of images includes a plurality of images is taken, at an interval which corresponds to fire and smoke dynamics. An on-site image-processing software supplies event warnings with indication of the position of the event site in the analysed image. A total image and an image sequence with image sections of the event site are then transmitted to a central station and reproduced at the central station as a continuous sequence in quick-motion mode. Event warnings with relevant data are blended into electronic maps at the central station. Cross-bearing is made possible by blending event warnings from adjacent monitoring sites. False alarms are minimized by marking known false alarm sources as exclusion zones.

Process for monitoring territories in order to recognise forest and surface fires

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Berlin, Germany

Volker Mertens