Forest Fire Monitoring Method Based on UAV Visual and Infrared Image Fusion

Forest fires have become a significant global threat, with many negative impacts on human habitats and forest ecosystems. This study proposed a forest fire identification method by fusing visual and infrared images, addressing the high false alarm and missed alarm rates of forest fire monitoring usi...

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Main Authors: Yuqi Liu, Change Zheng, Xiaodong Liu, Ye Tian, Jianzhong Zhang, Wenbin Cui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-06-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/12/3173
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Summary:Forest fires have become a significant global threat, with many negative impacts on human habitats and forest ecosystems. This study proposed a forest fire identification method by fusing visual and infrared images, addressing the high false alarm and missed alarm rates of forest fire monitoring using single spectral imagery. A dataset suitable for image fusion was created using UAV aerial photography. An improved image fusion network model, the FF-Net, incorporating an attention mechanism, was proposed. The YOLOv5 network was used for target detection, and the results showed that using fused images achieved a higher accuracy, with a false alarm rate of 0.49% and a missed alarm rate of 0.21%. As such, using fused images has greater significance for the early warning of forest fires.
ISSN:2072-4292