7.2 Monitoring Forest Fires

Public safety infrastructures for monitoring forest fires are a critical component for the development of fast and effective evaluation plans for the affected population and for the effective coordination among all the involved civil protection agents. An early detection of forest fires enables the in-time notification of the alert among the affected population, which in turn, might save lives, in the last instance. Traditionally, fires are usually detected by means of alert notifications of people which have physically seen the fires and decide to notify the policeman and fireman. This has several disadvantages since it entails that the time elapse from the fire initiation and the initial detection could potentially be enough to produce s....