Progress of my Imagine Cup 2011 project : Cobong Feature (Fire Monitoring System)

To save our earth, we must save our forests.

That’s the basic idea from our team (My Electrical Romance Team) to make the Cobong project, maybe we just concentrate about how to save the forests from forest fires, so we need a feature like Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol (Firemon) in our project.
here’s the little description about Firemon.

Firemon

Monitoring and inventory to assess the effects of wildland fire is critical for
1) documenting fire effects,
2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit,
3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and
4) appraising the potential for future treatments. However, monitoring fire effects is often difficult because data collection requires abundant funds, resources, and sampling experience. Often, the reason fire monitoring projects are not implemented is because fire management agencies do not have scientifically based, standardized protocols for inventorying pre- and postfire conditions that satisfy their monitoring and management objectives.
We have developed a comprehensive system, called the Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System (FIREMON), which is designed to satisfy fire management agencies’ monitoring and inventory requirements for most ecosystems, fuel types, and geographic areas in the United States. FIREMON consists of standardized sampling methods and manuals, field forms, database, analysis program, and an image analysis guide so that fire managers can
1) design a fire effects monitoring project,
2) collect and store the sampled data,
3) statistically analyze and summarize the data,
4) link the data with satellite imagery, and
5) map the sampled data across the landscape using image processing. FIREMON allows flexible but comprehensive sampling of fire effects so data can be evaluated for significant impacts, shared across agencies, and used to update and refine fire management plans and prescriptions. FIREMON has a flexible structure that allows the modification of sampling methods and local code fields to allow the sampling of locally important fire effects evaluation criteria.

maybe our feature of project will use same purpose but with different user interface, we’ll make it easy and simple. Amieeen 😀