DATA FUSION OF SENSOR NETWORKS
AND FIRE SPREAD MODELLING
FOR DECISION SUPPORT
IN FOREST FIRE SUPPRESSION
In the last 20 years, Portugal has been severely affected
by large wildfires with dramatic consequences.
The main objective of this project is to combine the expertise of several institutions of the scientific community to provide sound and efficient tools capable of improving decision making during wildfires crisis to minimize its negative consequences.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM – MAÇÃO – 18.11.22
Data fusion of sensor networks and fire spread modelling for decision support in forest fire suppression
- 10h00 – Opening
Dr. Vasco Estrela
(Mayor of Mação Municipality) - 10h15 – Decision Support System MacFire
Eng. António Louro
(Vice-Mayor of Mação Municipality) - 10h45 – Overview of project foRESTER
Prof. Luís Bica Oliveira
(PI, Associate Professor at FCT NOVA) - 11h00 – Land Cover Mapping
Prof. Mário Caetano
(DGT Deputy Director-General) - 11h30 – Coffee Break
- 12h00 – Fire Spread Simulations
Dr. Ana Sá
(Co-PI, Researcher at ISA) - 12h30 – Discussion
- 13h00 – Lunch
- 15h00 – Decision Support System foRESTER
Prof. André Mora
(Professor at FCT NOVA) - 15h45 – Panel Discussion
- 16h30 – Final Remarks and Closing
LATEST NEWS
DGT (Direção-Geral do Território) is developing methods based on Artificial Intelligence
DGT (Direção-Geral do Território) is developing methods based on Artificial Intelligence to produce land cover maps and change detection based on intra- and inter-annual time series of Sentinel-2 satellite images and expert knowledge.
The maps produced differ from DGT’s current Land Use and Land cover map (COS) in that they represent land occupation in 13 classes in raster format (10-meter pixels), while COS also represents classes of land use in vector format with a minimum mapping unit of 1 ha.
PROJECT SUMMARY
In order to have a more precise and granular
information from the field a low cost and power
efficient, flexible, reconfigurable,
multifunctional smart sensing system…
RESEARCH PARTNERS
Due to the inherent complexity of the system,
we gathered a multidisciplinary team from
different areas of expertise
PROJECT GOALS
Smart and Reconfigurable Multi-Sensor
LCLU Mapping and Satellite Image Processing
NRT Fire Spread Simulator
Visual and Interactive DSS