Forest fires are often enlarged over extended periods of time, but if they detected through image-based real-time monitoring, this would shorten the response time fire fighters, thereby preventing great damage. When a forest occurs, it is difficult to access area and accurately identify location its occurrence monitoring images only. To overcome these problems, paper proposes method detecting u...

It has long been argued in the research literature that conducting disaster exercises produces a variety of benefits that promote effective emergency management. In spite of nearly universal acceptance of the claim, there are few empirical studies that have explored the effects of exercises on participants. This paper reviews the role of exercises in the creation of community disaster preparedn...

Results of numerical optimization are reported for a phase change heat sink used to cool electronic equipment in extreme environments. The heat sink consists of a conventional, extruded aluminum sink embedded in a block of phase change material. This type of heat sink is used in infrared cameras carried by fire fighters into burning buildings. Optimization of the geometry of the heat sink assem...

This study concerns virtual environments for training in operational conditions. The principal developed idea is that these environments are heterogeneous and open multiagent systems. The MASCARET model is proposed to organize the interactions between agents and to give them reactive, cognitive and social abilities to simulate the physical and social environment. The physical environment repres...

The use of wireless sensor networks for bushfire monitoring can help to map and locate fires rapidly and accurately. A Management Centre could use such information in order to deploy fire-fighters, tankers and aircraft to the best locations to protect people and communities from bushfire hazards. This paper describes an application of the GPS/INS technology to support a mobile mapping system wh...

Fire fighter fatalities and injuries in the U.S. remain too high fire fighting hazardous. Until now, fighters rely only on their experience to avoid life-threatening events, such as flashover. In this paper, we describe development of a flashover prediction model which can be used warn before occurs. Specifically, consider use simulation program generate set synthetic data an attention-based bi...

The move to relational probabilistic models from propositional models stemmed from the realization that the type of knowledge we have and need in many domains is at a level more generic than that of concrete objects. In reasoning about preference, too, often we have knowledge about the desirable behavior or state of a system of agents/objects, that applies to different instantiations of this sy...

This study concerns virtual environments for training in operational conditions. The principal developed idea is that these environments are heterogeneous and open multi-agent systems. The MASCARET model is proposed to organize the interactions between agents and to provide them reactive, cognitive and social abilities to simulate the physical and social environment. The physical environment re...