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Citizen-centric Tool for Near Real-Time Mapping of Active Forest Fires


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1 Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), #4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
2 Jammu and Kashmir Forest Department, Sheikh Bagh, Near Lal Chowk, Srinagar 180 001, India
 

In this study, a mobile app is presented as a citizencentric geospatial solution to record real-time forest fire incidents. This tool fetches accurate geographical coordinates and captures forest fire images, along with relevant fields related to the event such as cause of fire, fire type, species affected, etc. in both online and offline mode. The background, application foundation, system design and main features are also described. Evaluation of robustness of the application and a case study are presented to show the potential use of this participatory sensing-based geospatial tool.

Keywords

Citizen Science, Forest Fire, Geospatial Tool, Mobile Application, Real-time Mapping.
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Authors

Sameer Saran
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), #4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
Priyanka Singh
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), #4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
Hitendra Padalia
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), #4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
Arshdeep Singh
Jammu and Kashmir Forest Department, Sheikh Bagh, Near Lal Chowk, Srinagar 180 001, India
Vishal Kumar
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), #4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248 001, India
Prakash Chauhan
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), #4 Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248 001, India

Abstract


In this study, a mobile app is presented as a citizencentric geospatial solution to record real-time forest fire incidents. This tool fetches accurate geographical coordinates and captures forest fire images, along with relevant fields related to the event such as cause of fire, fire type, species affected, etc. in both online and offline mode. The background, application foundation, system design and main features are also described. Evaluation of robustness of the application and a case study are presented to show the potential use of this participatory sensing-based geospatial tool.

Keywords


Citizen Science, Forest Fire, Geospatial Tool, Mobile Application, Real-time Mapping.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv119%2Fi5%2F780-789