TY - JOUR PY - 2010// TI - A 3D vision system for the measurement of the rate of spread and the height of fire fronts JO - Measurement science and technology A1 - Rossi, L. A1 - Molinier, T. A1 - Akhloufi, M. A1 - Tison, Y. A1 - Pieri, A. SP - e105501 EP - e105501 VL - 21 IS - 10 N2 - 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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LA - en SN - 0957-0233 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/21/10/105501 ID - ref1 ER -