To detect forest fires, heat camera robot airoplanes have been deployed at Szendrő, Borsod county, Hungary
Ágoston Restás, chief of Szendrő Fire Protection, said to ForestPress that three electricity driven engines of only a few kilograms weight, and 3 meters wing span, can assist in detecting large forest fires.
The cameras, sensitive to heat, can send images and data to the ground operator. within two minutes after take off. This information is essential in case of forest and bush fires, ranging on large areas. There have been experimens also in the USA, to put out forest and bush fires using small sized robot aeroplanes, but in the practice of every day application, it is the Hungarian Szendrő where, fire fighting robot planes, transported and launched.by means of fire engines are involved in forest fire fighting, for the first tme in the world.