@article {bnh-7413, title = {Quantifying fuel hazard assessments - Fuels3D annual report 2019-2020}, number = {619}, year = {2020}, month = {10/2020}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {MELBOURNE}, abstract = {

This annual report summarises the year 2019 for the Fuels3D project.\  This project was funded as half a project; the work considers the lack of repeatability and reliability with current field fuel hazard assessments. It demonstrates the precision of a semi-automated non-visual based assessments as compared to those collected through traditional visual assessment.\  The opportunity to bring together off-the-shelf, smart phone cameras and consumer grade digital cameras with advances in computer vision and photogrammetric techniques provide a cheap alternative for quantitative assessments compared to more accurate, but more expensive 3D mapping technologies (i.e. Lidar TLS).\  A tool chain and suite of computer vision and photogrammetric algorithms that use images captured in the field to produce 3D point clouds from which fuel hazard metrics are calculated. The developed technique is adaptive to 3D point clouds captured from other terrestrial technologies and can allow for changes in data collection technologies.

Highlights of 2018-2019 have included:

}, keywords = {fuel hazard, fuels3D}, issn = {619}, author = {Bryan Hally and Karin Reinke and Luke Wallace and Simon Jones} }