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6 December 2005 The support system of the firefighter's activity by detecting objects in smoke space
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Proceedings Volume 6051, Optomechatronic Machine Vision; 60510L (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.649448
Event: Optomechatronic Technologies 2005, 2005, Sapporo, Japan
Abstract
In recent years, crisis management's response to terrorist attacks and natural disasters, as well as accelerating rescue operations has become an important issue. We aim to make a support system for firefighters using the application of various engineering techniques such as information technology and radar technology. In rescue operations, one of the biggest problems is that the view of firefighters is obstructed by dense smoke. One of the current measures against this condition is the use of search sticks, like a blind man walking in town. The most important task for firefighters is to understand inside situation of a space with dense smoke. Therefore, our system supports firefighters' activity by visualizing the space with dense smoke. First, we scan target space with dense smoke by using millimeter-wave radar combined with a gyro sensor. Then multiple directional scan data can be obtained, and we construct a 3D map from high-reflection point dataset using 3D image processing technologies (3D grouping and labeling processing). In this paper, we introduce our system and report the results of the experiment in the real smoke space situation and practical achievements.
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Masaki Sakai, Yoshimitsu Aoki, and Mikio Takagi "The support system of the firefighter's activity by detecting objects in smoke space", Proc. SPIE 6051, Optomechatronic Machine Vision, 60510L (6 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.649448
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KEYWORDS
Radar

Signal processing

3D image processing

3D metrology

Extremely high frequency

3D acquisition

Distance measurement

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