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Fighting Fires with OSSIM
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on Friday December 16, @08:48AM
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mlucas17 writes "Open Source Software Image Map (OSSIM) is being used by the CSIR in South Africa to identify and locate forest fires. Frederic Claudel, an image processing researcher based at the Meraka Institute, worked on the project to port the once-proprietary mapping system to open source. The Advanced Fire Information System detects fires by analysing small changes to satellite images using complex algorithms. "Whenever the satellite takes an image, it will look for specific brightnesses ... and look for anomalies," says Claudel."
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