The objective of Nina Homainejad’s research is to utilise Unmanned Aircraft Systems for bushfire data acquisition. The data collected from the Unmanned Aircraft Systems will be merged with other layers of bushfire data collected prior to, and during, bushfire, such as aerial and ground point cloud and satellite data. A 3D model of the bushfire data will be generated from the different data sets and loaded into a web-based system for firefighters and emergency services to view. The purpose of this 3D model is to assist firefighters with a supportive tool for analysing bushfire behaviour.
As part of her research, Nina made recommendations on the most suitable categories of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for bushfire image and data acquisition and how the application of multiple categories of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in different airspaces could be achieved to replace traditional methods of bushfire image and data acquisition.
