This document discusses using wireless sensor networks to detect forest fires reliably. It presents two main forest fire detection methods - the Canadian and Korean approaches. The Canadian approach calculates a fire weather index and was found to be more energy efficient and less complex algorithmically. The document also describes the methodology, detection algorithms, experimental results, and concludes that wireless sensor network technology is promising for efficiently detecting forest fires early.

1. Using Wireless Sensor Networks for
Detection Reliable Forest Fires
By Leila Maleki
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2. Contents
1. Introduction
2. Related Work
3. Forest fires detection Methods
4. The adopted methodology
5. Detection algorithms
6. Experimental results
7. Conclusion
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3. Introduction
 a wireless sensor network (WSN)
technology could be deployed to detect a
forest fire in its early stages
 Each sensor node can gather different
types of row data from sensors
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4. Related Work
 Traditionally, forest fires were detected
using conventional techniques such as
guard towers located to fire high points
 forest-fire detection systems based on the
satellite imagery(MODIS, AVHRR,...)
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5. Forest fires detection Methods
 Canadian approach
 The Canadian study proposed the calculation of the index
fire according to FWI (Fire Weather Index).
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6. Forest fires detection Methods..
 Korean approach
 The middleware developed in Korean approach
receives and processes packets from the
transceiver and displays its results
 Y= 6.87 + (0.64 *P) + (0.15 *EF) + (1774,94 / CS)
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7. The adopted methodology
 Data collection module
 Communication module
 Analysis module
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8. Detection algorithms
 Canadian approach
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9. Detection algorithms..
 Korean approach
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10. Experimental results
 Hardware platform
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11. Experimental results..
 Results analysis
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12. Conclusion
 This study firstly reveals that WSN technology is a very
promising green technology for the future in detecting
efficiently the forest fires in our country. Secondly, and
through the real experiments performed in the field, we
conclude the effectiveness of the Canadian approach in
terms of energy efficiency and algorithmic complexity
compared to the Korean one, and its suitability to the
context of our country mainly during summer seasons.
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13. References
[1] M. Hefeeda, M. Bagheri, Forest Fire Modeling and Early
Detection u Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Vol.7, No.3/4,
p169-224, 2009.
[2] M. Bahrepour, N. Meratnia, Automatic Fire Detection: A
Survey from Wireless Sensor Network Pe , Technical Report
TR-CTIT-08-73, Centre for Telematics and Information
Technology University of Twente, Enschede, ISSN1381-3625,
2008.
[3] Fire in Europe, available on: http://www.planetoscope.com/
[accessed, January 20th, 2013].
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