Forest Fire Finder – DOAS application to long-range forest fire detection

Valente de Almeida, Rui; Vieira, Pedro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2299-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2299-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2299-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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22 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 22 Jun 2017

Forest Fire Finder – DOAS application to long-range forest fire detection

Rui Valente de Almeida and Pedro Vieira

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Jun 2017)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review on Forest Fire Finder by Valente de Almeida and Vieira', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Dec 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee Comment #1', Rui Valente de Almeida, 20 Dec 2016
RC2: 'comments to AMT-2016-314', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee Comment #2', Rui Valente de Almeida, 10 Jan 2017

Short summary

This paper presents the Forest Fire Finder (FFF) System, a long range forest fire detection system. It works by detecting a smoke column above the horizon, by analysing the light that goes through it. In the article, you will find a technical description and an analysis of the behaviour of 13 of these devices, which were installed in a Portuguese national park. We conclude that the deployed FFF network managed to detect more that 200 fires, proving the system to be effective in fire detection.