Potential of UAV Application for Forest Fire Detection
Abdul Muid (a,b*), Hansel Khane (a), I Kadek Agus Sarasawita (a), Maria Evita (a), Nina Siti Aminah (a), Maman Budiman (a) & Mitra Djamal (a)

a. Department of Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia
*muidphysics[at]gmail.com
b. Department of Physics, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, Indonesia

Abstract

Improved ground and aerial drone technology enable mapping and monitoring forests and land to mitigate forest fires. UAV plays a role in monitoring by collecting forest area image data from the air, which we can process into 2D and 3D images. It can be analyzed to identify land cover types and objects in forest areas. This image data collection uses the DJI Phantom 4 Pro UAV controlled automatically with a flight plan made with Pix4D Capture, which is then processed using Agisoft. The result of the mapping has an average GSD of 2,03 cm/px. The mapping result shows that the 3D image produced can show objects of various land cover types in the imaged area. Ground sensors are used to detect forest and land weather parameters of the sampling area. Image data collection, forest and land weather parameters were successfully carried out in the Tangkuban Parahu Mountain area.

Keywords: forest fire, UAV, drone, ground sensor

Topic: Instrumentation, Acoustics, and Signal Processing