DSpace Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/10316/456132024-03-29T11:06:40Z2024-03-29T11:06:40ZThe FireLoc Project: Identification, Positioning and Monitoring Forest Fires with Crowdsourced DataFonte, Cidália C.Cardoso, AlbertoEstima, JacintoAlmeida, J.-P. dePatriarca, Joaquimhttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/955862022-05-25T04:25:26Z2021-06-20T00:00:00ZTitle: The FireLoc Project: Identification, Positioning and Monitoring Forest Fires with Crowdsourced Data
Authors: Fonte, Cidália C.; Cardoso, Alberto; Estima, Jacinto; Almeida, J.-P. de; Patriarca, Joaquim
Abstract: The severity and impacts of forest fires have increased in the last years in several parts of the
world, where devastating fires occur now almost every year. As these types of events are likely
to increase due to climate changes, it is important to develop tools to assist authorities in the
early identification and geolocation of ignitions so that they can be tackled as fast as possible.
Several types of systems are currently being used, and others are under development, to
automatically detect fires, based on, for example, thermal cameras and observation points; even
so, the more systems available to detect these events and identify their location at an early stage,
the better. This fact motivated the FireLoc project, currently under implementation, which aims
to develop a system that will enable citizens to provide georeferenced data allowing the
detection and geolocation of spotted fires in real time. The FireLoc system includes a dedicated
app that enables citizens to report a spotted fire using their own smartphones. The app
automatically collects the observer’s geolocation, a photograph of what is being observed, the
orientation, and the approximate distance between the observer and the observed event. The
FireLoc system stores reported data and includes functionalities for their validation, for data
integration and processing to identify the location of spotted fires, as well as visualization of
extracted information for several types of users, such as authorities and citizens. This paper
presents the various components of the FireLoc project, the main challenges that are faced to
obtain reliable geolocation of the observed events, and the results obtained with the first sets of
collected data2021-06-20T00:00:00ZA platform to integrate crowdsourced, physical sensor and official geographic information to assist authorities in emergency responseFontes, D.Fonte, C.Cardoso, A.Almeida, J.-P. deEstima, J.https://hdl.handle.net/10316/458822021-02-11T13:06:57Z2017-05-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A platform to integrate crowdsourced, physical sensor and official geographic information to assist authorities in emergency response
Authors: Fontes, D.; Fonte, C.; Cardoso, A.; Almeida, J.-P. de; Estima, J.
Abstract: In this work, a prototype GIS-based platform to integrate Volunteered Geographic Information from various sources with other spatial data is presented, aiming at assisting civil protection authorities in emergency response situations. The platform is now in the implementation phase, and this paper covers some aspects about its development and preliminary results to demonstrate the potentialities of the approach proposed.2017-05-01T00:00:00Z