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

• Main Authors: KRANE UWE, KNOLLENBERG JORG, BEHNKE THOMAS, JOCK ANDREAS, NEUSS HARTMUT, GRAESER GUENTER, MERTENS VOLKER, KUERT EKKEHARD, VOGEL HOLGER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.02.2013
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; FIRE-FIGHTING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; LIFE-SAVING; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

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 imag...