FireWxNet: A multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments

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FireWxNet: A multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments (2006)

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by Carl Hartung , Richard Han , Carl Seielstad , Saxon Holbrook

Venue:	In The 4 th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Citations:	91 - 1 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hartung06firewxnet:a,
    author = {Carl Hartung and Richard Han and Carl Seielstad and Saxon Holbrook},
    title = {FireWxNet: A multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments},
    booktitle = {In The 4 th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services},
    year = {2006},
    pages = {28--41},
    publisher = {ACM Press}
}

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In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fighting community the ability to safely and easily measure and view fire and weather conditions over a wide range of locations and elevations within forest fires. This previously unattainable information allows fire behavior analysts to better predict fire behavior, heightening safety considerations. Our system uses a tiered structure beginning with directional radios to stretch deployment capabilities into the wilderness far beyond current infrastructures. At the end point of our system we designed and integrated a multihop sensor network to provide environmental data. We also integrated web-enabled surveillance cameras to provide visual data. This paper describes a week long full system deployment utilizing 3 sensor networks and 2 web-cams in the Selway-Salmon Complex Fires of 2005. We perform an analysis of system performance and present observations and lessons gained from our deployment.

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weather condition multi-tiered portable wireless system wildland fire environment selway-salmon complex fire predict fire behavior present observation unattainable information fire behavior analyst wide range sensor network current infrastructure multihop sensor network web-enabled surveillance camera system performance directional radio environmental data full system safety consideration deployment capability tiered structure visual data rugged wildland fire environment end point view fire present firewxnet

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