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3F - Foresight and Fire Fighting

For long time ago that the fire fighting has been a problem. The high amount of underbrush in the forest has a high level of combustion. The rugged terrain hinders access by firefighters. And besides, the wind is the worst enemy because it can change in a few moments the direction of fire. It is also necessary a perception of how fire reacts to the weather conditions, plus the grass on the field and the topology of the terrain, so that combined with the courage of fire fighters for it to be extinguished quickly. Our objective is to develop a system that helps in advance to visualize and predict the fire movement and decide the movements of firefighters to help the fire fighting, using the information gathered on terrain data, weather forecast and simulators.