- Author
- Kourtz, P.
- Title
- Visual Airborne Forest Fire Detection Patrol Route Planning System.
- Coporate
- Forest Fire Research Institute, Ontario, Canada
- Report
- Information Report FF-X-45, December 1973, 33 p.
- Keywords
- forest fires | airborne equipment | fire detection | fire data | forecasting | planning | weather effects
- Abstract
- The aerial detection planning system that was developed consists of a procedure to forecast an hourly fire occurrence pattern and an algorithm to route air patrols through the occurrence pattern in an efficient manner. Historical weather and fire data from northwestern Ontario were used to illustrate the forecast procedure. To test the system, actual 1972 northwestern Ontario detection results were compared with those that would have been obtained had the computerized system been used during the 1972 season. Results appeared encouraging. A near-operational computer package, designed for daily detection dispatching, was developed; and experience with it suggested one possible form that an operational field version might take.