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Innovative Forest Fire Early Warning System (INPRIWA)
Project
Project code: TI-WO-08-PID1697
Contract period: 01.10.2009
- 31.07.2011
Purpose of research: Applied research
During a typically dry Spring in Brandenburg a forest fire starts. Valuable timber is lost, people and animals are threatened. In 2003, a dry year, forest fires in Brandenburg resulted in damage totalling more than EUR 1 million . The existing Fire Watch System can only identify fires when intensive smoke is being developed, monitoring can be considerably impeded by landscape contours and other factors. Tests are being carried out on a hydrogen sensor developed at the Humboldt University Berlin which can be used to detect forest fires in the early stages, before open flames are formed. Principle - The pyrolysis (thermal transformation) of organic material releases hydrogen (H2). - H2 molecules are small enough to penetrate the lattice structure of the detector and cause of change in capacitance. - H2 is a selective pyrolytic product, and suitable as an early indicator of forest fires.
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Resource management
- Climate Change
