Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection.docVIP

Sensors 2007, 7, 3084-3099 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2007 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper Animals as Mobile Biological Sensors for Forest Fire Detection Yasar Guneri Sahin Izmir University of Economics, Department of Software Engineering, Izmir-TR +90 (232) 488 8173 E-mail: yasar.sahin@.tr Received: 7 November 2007 / Accepted: 3 December 2007 / Published: 4 December 2007 Abstract: This paper proposes a mobile biological sensor system that can assist in early detection of forest fires one of the most dreaded natural disasters on the earth. The main idea presented in t