Forest Fire Monitoring and Measuring with Multiple Cooperating Drones
This short course on Big Data Analytics for Natural Disaster Management (NDM) provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth presentation of advanced technologies involved in the acquisition and analysis of Big Data for NDM. NDM can be greatly improved by developing automated means for precise semantic mapping and phenomenon evolution predictions in real-time.

Real-time forest fire perception, monitoring and measuring is a very complex problem of that requires the fusion of different types of sensors and cameras. Using several cooperating aerial robots (drones) is an ideal approach to gather high quality images and measurements at different vantage points suitable for fire status estimation and to process them in a decentralized manner exploiting on-board drone computation capacity. This presentation will summarize different approaches, schemes, methods and will present some results obtained in wildfire experiments.