uav_wildfire

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms for Large-Scale, Real-Time, and Intelligent Disaster Responses

1. Introduction

The aim of this project is to develop and test a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that is capable of monitoring air pollution emitted by wildfires and to understand the effects of the pollution on human health. An octocopter UAV, equipped with a customized air quality sensor package and a volatile organic compound (VOC) air sampler has been developed and successfully tested during several prescribed fires conducted by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).

The video is available on YouTube (click):

2. Public Datasets

Our experiment datasets can be download here.

3. Acknowledgements

This project is funded by Sony Group Corporation and CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.

4. Licence

The source code is released under GPLv3 license.