Patent ID: 6556981
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: G06Q,G08B,Y10S

Abstract:
An automated method for optimizing fire fighting decisions comprising the acts of:a. generating and storing in a computer database geographic control data characterizing preselected parameters of a plurality of geographic regions of the earth; b. controlling an imaging system to periodically acquire images of a selected geographic region; c. generating computer-readable image data defining characteristics of the acquired image of the selected geographic region, and storing the image data in an image memory; d. accessing the image data stored in the image memory and routing the data to a neural network image processing computer; e. computer analyzing the image data with the neural network image processing computer and determining whether a fire exists in the selected geographic region; f. further computer processing the image data of the selected geographic region and generating fire control data defining preselected characteristics of the fire; g. accessing the geographic control data stored in the database that defines the preselected parameters of the selected geographic region in which the fire is burning; h. routing the fire control data and the geographic control data to an expert system computer; i. executing an expert system program in the expert system computer that employs prestored expert rules and analyzing the fire control data and the geographic control data to determine optimum fire fighting actions; and j. indicating the optimum fire fighting actions determined by the expert system computer.