Fire Event Analytics: A Visual Analytics Tool to Assist Wildland Fire Management

A comprehensive solution for early fire detection, prevention, monitoring, prediction and fire-fighting has been a major objective during the last decades, due to numerous catastrophic wildland fires worldwide. In this work, Fire Event Analytics, a Visual Analytics tool that can operate as part of a fire event information system, is presented. Fire Event Analytics utilizes data acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles, effectively supporting wildland fire management. It is cloud-based and presents spatial and temporal cues to the end user, in order to form a comprehensive operations control module and enhance decision support. In that direction, fire growth prediction and simulation is supported, allowing hypothetical testing and comparison of multiple fire event scenarios, whereas a novel metric is introduced for assessing fire event criticality.