Company

Coremain S.L.U.

Research Centre

ITMATI and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Productive sector

Energy and Environment

H2020 Challenge

Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Problem description

Development of intelligent systems to provide an advanced route control, allowing cooperative operations between manned aircrafts and RPA (observational operations), helping to
characterize the territory and making the unload operations during fights against forest fires more efficient.

Challenges and goals

Elaboration of several expert systems for decision making, based on different kinds of information stored in large databases.

Algorithms for temperature data treatment and calculation of escape routes for the fire fighting squads will be developed.

Mathematical and computational methods

  • Statistical modelling
  • Mathematical Optimization
  • Analysis and programming of mathematical algorithms
  • R and Python programming.
  • Databases (especially postGis)
  • GIS systems (QGIS and PyQGIS , in particular)

Results and Benefits

The results of this project will strongly contribute to develop technologies to optimize the efforts dedicated to fire extinction and that allow to reduce the affected surface, as well as increase the security of the brigades, improve the coordination in the extinction operations, extend the time zone of action and introduce new aerial resources in the fight against major forest fires.

Likewise, the investment, operation and maintenance costs of the operations can be reduced, increasing the coverage and efficiency of the service.