Infrared imagery on wildfire research. Some examples of sound capabilities and applications

Wildfire infrared monitoring is nowadays applied to different problems related to fire prevention, fire suppression and fire behaviour analysis. In terms of research, infrared thermography offers unique capabilities although it is constantly challenging the scientific community to develop sound process imagery methodologies in order to obtain valuable and reliable information about fire phenomena. In this paper we show some infrared thermography applications that we have recently developed to provide solutions on fuel mapping, fire behaviour analysis, fire suppression and fire effects assessment. We highlight the advantages and drawbacks of all of them and present future problems that can be tackled with this type of fire monitoring techniques.