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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2005
Günter Gräser, Schwanebeck, DE;
Andreas Jock, Mahlow, DE;
Uwe Krane, Berlin, DE;
Hartmut Neuss, Zeuthen, DE;
Holger Vogel, Berlin, DE;
Volker Mertens, Berlin, DE;
Jorg Knollenberg, Berlin, DE;
Thomas Behnke, Zeesen, DE;
Ekkehard Kürt, Zeuthen, DE;
Günter Gräser, Schwanebeck, DE;
Andreas Jock, Mahlow, DE;
Uwe Krane, Berlin, DE;
Hartmut Neuss, Zeuthen, DE;
Holger Vogel, Berlin, DE;
Volker Mertens, Berlin, DE;
Jorg Knollenberg, Berlin, DE;
Thomas Behnke, Zeesen, DE;
Ekkehard Kürt, Zeuthen, DE;
IQ Wireless GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
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.