Radio coverage for emergency communication systems to operate under critical wildfire environments TOOL RESCuE-TOOL

Project: Radio coverage for emergency communication systems to operate under critical wildfire environments TOOL

Acronym: RESCuE-TOOL

Main Objective: In this research project, the study of radiowave propagation phenomena in the presence of wildfires, is proposed. Both experimental and theoretical approaches to examine and understand radio propagation in fire environments for various scenarios and fuel heaps that are problematic to radio communication will be examined and a new radio system planning will be studied and implemented in real case applications. Discussion and recommendations will be made concerning radio communication frequency selection and considerations for both SIRESP radio coverage and backhaul redundancy for the backhaul radio links of each base station, to operate in fire environments. This builds up on top of more than 20 years of extensive research work on attenuation in vegetation media by research team.

Reference: PCIF/SSI/0194/2017

Funding: FCT

Start Date: 01-01-2019

End Date: 28-02-2022

Team: Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha, Nuno Ricardo Cordeiro Leonor, Carlos Antonio Cardoso Fernandes, Carlos Eduardo do Rego da Costa Salema

Groups: Antennas and Propagation – Lr, Antennas and Propagation – Lx

Partners: University of Adelaide, Australia

Local Coordinator: Rafael Ferreira da Silva Caldeirinha

Associated Publications

1Papers in Conferences
N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, Rafael Caldeirinha, A Framework for the Analysis of Wildfire Effects in Emergency Communication Systems, IEEE Computing, Electromagnetics, and Machine Intelligence Workshop CEMi, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Vol., pp. -, November, 2018,
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Project: Radio coverage for emergency communication systems to operate under critical wildfire environments TOOL