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, Stefânia de Sousa Faria, Mário António Patrício Carreira Vala, Nuno Ricardo Cordeiro Leonor, Carlos Antonio Cardoso Fernandes, Carlos Eduardo do Rego da Costa Salema, João Manuel de Almeida Monteiro Felício, Pedro António Gomes Duarte Coimbra

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 Journals
N. Leonor, T. Fernandes, M. Sanchez, Rafael Caldeirinha, A 3D Model for Millimeter-Wave Propagation Through Vegetation Media Using Ray-Tracing, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 67, No. 6, pp. 4313 - 4318, March, 2019,
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9Papers in Conferences
T.O. Oliveira, M. Vala, S. Faria, J. R. Reis, N. Leonor, Rafael Caldeirinha, A study on small sensor node antenna performance camouflaged under grassland fire, International Federation for Information Processing IFIP International Internet of Things Conference IFIP IOT, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol., pp. -, November, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, J.F. Felício, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, Rafael Caldeirinha, Analytical Studies of Refractive Index Variation in Pine Needles Media under Wildfire Conditions, The European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCAP, Düsseldorf, Germany, Vol., pp. -, March, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J.F. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, Rafael Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling of Dual Wildfire Front Spreading over Hilly Terrain at 700 MHz, Telecoms Conference ConfTELE, Leiria, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, February, 2021,
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P. Coimbra, S. Faria, M. Vala, J.F. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, N. Leonor, Rafael Caldeirinha, C. Salema, Experimental Setup for Radio Characterization of Fire at Microwave Frequencies, Telecoms Conference ConfTELE, Leiria, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, February, 2021,
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S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, J.F. Felício, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, Rafael Caldeirinha, Comparative Study of Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Radiowave Propagation in Wildfires, URSI International Union of Radio Science General Assembly & Scientific Symposium URSI GASS, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. -, September, 2020,
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G. Ramos, P. Pereira, N. Leonor, Rafael Caldeirinha, Analysis of Radiowave Propagation in Forest Media Using the Parabolic Equation, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vol., pp. -, March, 2020,
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N. Leonor, T. Fernandes, Rafael Caldeirinha, A Practical Deconvolution Antenna Method to Retrieve Scattering Profile in Complex Random Media - A Vegetation Case Study at 28 GHz, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vol., pp. -, March, 2020,
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S. Faria, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, J.F. Felício, C. Salema, Rafael Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling in the Presence of Wildfires: Initial Results, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vol., pp. -, March, 2020,
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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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3Thesis
Study of radiowave propagation in vegetation media in the presence of forest fires, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, MSc Student, Alexandre José Paulo Lourenço, Supervisor: Rafael Caldeirinha, Co-supervisor: T. Fernandes, set-2017 - jun-2020
Radiowave propagation in wildfires, DEEC/IST - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Student, Mário António Patrício Carreira Vala, Supervisor: Rafael Caldeirinha, Co-supervisor: C. A. Fernandes, fev-2018 - set-2023
Characterization of the radio communication channel in forest fire environment, Instituto Superior Técnico, MSc Student, Pedro António Gomes Duarte Coimbra, Supervisor: C. A. Fernandes, Co-supervisor: J.F. Felício, set-2019 - nov-2020

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