Detection techniques of forest fire: Using WSNs

Abstract

Forests are essential to maintain the ecosystem of the earth and also for human survival. However, because of some uncontrolled natural conditions and abnormal human activities, forest fires occur frequently as we see. One of the major cause of depletion of forests, is forest fire. In order to protect the forest fires, many forest fire detection methods have been adopted like charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras and Infrared (IR) detectors, satellite systems and images, and Wireless sensor networks, Video surveillance. Therefore, this paper reviews different existing algorithms based on wireless sensor network and their parameters that work for forest fire detection. This paper provides a comparative study of these forest fire detection algorithm and also provide a new idea for future work.