The PROMETEO project's main objective is to ensure the conservation of our forests, optimizing the resources available to the public administrations for this purpose by developing new technologies that allow us to minimize the risk to wildfires and mitigate environmental damage case of fire. Furthermore, this project aim to use new technologies that will definitely reduce the generation of large forest fires and maximizing the safety of extinguishing devices. To mitigate the effect of forest fires, the project includes a multilateral and multidisciplinary approach in three phases:

• Fire Prevention.
• Firefighting.
• Restoration of burned areas.

Treesat’s role:

  Treesat lab (UCO) is the public research entitie of INAER (global leader enterprise in aviation emergency services).

  The main role of treesat lab in the project is the design of an airborne system that provides real time information of the flame front. Also the integration of map information available and information acquired in real time is an essential point for strengthening the role models of forest fires. The results have been divided into the following sections:

• Analysis of remote sensing applied to monitoring of forest fires.
• Conceptual design of the system.
• Integration of remote information obtained from satellite mapping.
• Analysis of the flame front and estimation of fuel from remote information.
• Physical principles, justification and selection of the technical characteristics of the sensors.

  The sensing system to be incorporated in the aircraft will consist of two data sources. A sensor that will provide us with temperature data, with temperatures intervals ranging from -40 to 2000 º C and a multispectral sensor that will provide information in the VIS and IR range for estimating the structure of the fuel.

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