AF3 - Advanced Forest Fire Fighting

  • Duration: May 2014 – April 2017
  • Funding Programme /Grant: 7th Framework Programme (Fp7) – European Commission
  • Project Total Cost: 19.270.384 €
  • S3+Lab Budget: 21.280 €
  • Departments involved:
    • DENERG - Department of Energy
    • DIATI - Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering
    • DIGEP - Department of Management and Production Engineering
    • DIMEAS - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    • DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning
  • The project partners are: 
    • Selex Galileo, Elbit Systems, EFPC, Fraunhofer- Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Angewandten Der Forschung, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Demokritos, Skytek, Politecnico di Torino, Centrum Badan Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Pyro Fire Extinction, The University Of Westminster, EADS - Construcciones Aeronauticas, Ministry Of National Defence Greece, FAASA Aviación, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, SA De transformación Agriculture, Linkopings Universitet, ARIA Technologies, Israeli Ministry of Public Security.
  • Abstract:
    • In recent years, the frequency of large wildfires has been increasing significantly due to a number of factors, including the effects of climate change, urbanization, mismanagement of the countryside and malicious acts.The project Advanced Forest Fire Fighting (AF3) intends to add a significant contribution to the current fire-fighting operations and to the protection of human lives , the environment and infrastructure through the development of innovative technologies and means to ensure a high level of integration between existing and new systems.

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/185483_en.html

http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/project/af3

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