Advanced automatic wildfire surveillance and monitoring network

Wildfires cause significant economic damage and have quite devastating effect on environment all over the world. Early fire detection and quick and appropriate intervention are of vital importance for wildfire damage minimization. In both cases, video-monitoring system could be quite useful. In this paper, after a short survey of various approaches to the wildfire monitoring, particularly to terrestrial automatic wildfire video monitoring system, an example of advanced automatic wildfire surveillance and monitoring system, designed as a practical realization of observer network theory, is described. The wildfire observer network called Istria iForestFire Net is illustrated from its theoretical background based on formal theory of perception to its features and capabilities.