Wildfire systems
Wildfire Camera Placement
A QGIS and Python workflow for testing camera locations and viewing angles against terrain visibility. Current results cover a partial Lesvos study area.
The idea
What it does
This optimizer combines a terrain model, land-cover weights and each camera's field of view to compare possible monitoring positions and directions.
Demonstration
How it works
01
Generate candidate camera locations
02
Calculate which land each candidate can see
03
Search for a camera set and viewing angles that meet the coverage target
Published partial-Lesvos run
The saved greedy solution used 89 cameras. The tested search found a solution with 86 cameras and about 90% weighted target coverage.
These are preliminary study results from the repository, not an island-wide optimum.