On the two ways for the computing of the fire front positions and the rate of spread

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose two methods for the identification of the fire front positions and the rate of spread in order to validate the first one by the second method. The first technique is based on the heat fluxes measured by specific thermal sensors and the use of the inverse method. The second one uses an image processing technique to obtain the fire front positions in pixels. The real positions in the propagation zone are determined using a matrix of passage calculated by applying the simple direct linear transformation (DLT) algorithm. The two methods give promising results and show that the thermal sensor technique can be validated by the image processing method.