Citation

Rossi L, Molinier T, Akhloufi M, Tison Y, Pieri A. Meas. Sci. Technol. 2010; 21(10): e105501.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Institute of Physics (Great Britain))

DOI

10.1088/0957-0233/21/10/105501

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) vision-based instrumentation system for the measurement of the rate of spread and height of complex fire fronts. The proposed 3D imaging system is simple, does not require calibration, is easily deployable in indoor and outdoor environments and can handle complex fire fronts. New approaches for measuring the position, the rate of spread and the height of a fire front during its propagation are introduced. Experiments were conducted in indoor and outdoor conditions with fires of different scales. Linear and curvilinear fire front spreading were studied. The obtained results are promising and show the interesting performance of the proposed system in operational and complex fire scenarios.

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