Deriving Fire Behavior Metrics from UAS Imagery

Deriving Fire Behavior Metrics from UAS Imagery

The emergence of affordable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) creates new opportunities to study fire behavior and ecosystem pattern—process relationships. A rotor-wing UAS hovering above a fire provides a static, scalable sensing platform that can characterize terrain, vegetation, and fire co...

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Main Authors: Christopher J. Moran, Carl A. Seielstad, Matthew R. Cunningham, Valentijn Hoff, Russell A. Parsons, LLoyd Queen, Katie Sauerbrey, Tim Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
Series:Fire
Subjects:
drones
fire rate of spread
thermal imagery
spatial autocorrelation
pseudo-replication
analytical units
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/2/2/36

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https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/2/2/36

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