SAMRAKSHA : Developing a real-time and automatic early warning system for forest fire

Abstract

A forest fire is an uncontrollable fire occurring in nature. The forest fires are so ravishing and have a spreading nature such that it takes a heavy period for firefighting crews to take control over the situation.Forest fires causes imbalances in nature and endangers bio-diversity by reducing faunal and floral wealth. Traditional methods of fire prevention are not proving effective and it is now essential to raise public awareness on the forest fires, particularly among people who live closer to forest areas.The forest fires mainly varies from year to year basis and quite a quite a long time elapse between forest fires that are considered to be large. Even the climatic conditions matters the cause of extent of forest fires. Forest fires are more vulnerable in spring and summer seasons. Weather conditions such as precipitation and wind, as well as out of terrain are important factors in determining the size of forest fire. By the estimation levels of research that most of the forest fires are caused mainly due to human, although the causes of a significant number of forest fires remains unknown.