Drone network for early warning of forest fire and dynamic fire quenching plan generation

Abstract Wildfires are one of the most frequent natural disasters which significantly harm the environment, society, and the economy. Transfer learning algorithms and modern machine learning tools can help in early forest fire prediction, detection, and dynamic fire quenching. A group of drones that has high-definition image processing and decision-making capabilities are used to detect the forest fires in the very early stage. The proposed system generates a fire quenching plan using particle swarm optimization technique and alerts the fire and rescue department for a quick action, thereby stop the forest fire at an early stage. Also, the drone network plays a major role to track the live status of forest fire and quenches the fire. ResNet, VGGNet, MobileNet, AlexNet, and GoogLeNet are used to detect the forest fire hazards. The experimental results prove that the proposed technique GoogLeNet-TL provides 96% accuracy and 97% F1 score in comparison with the state-of-the-art deep learning models.