Sensors for Fire and Smoke Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

We wish to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Sensors on fire and smoke detection and monitoring. This issue will curate and collect the latest research on sensors and systems to detect and quantify wildland, structural, and industrial combustion and gaseous emissions for diverse applications. For example, the devastation from the recent wildfires in California, Australia, and elsewhere has captured the attention of the public and highlighted the need to detect and monitor wildfires to protect and preserve life and property. Similar public interest surrounds detecting and monitoring fire and smoke behavior for fire protection and suppression in residential and industrial settings or for the design and test of safer materials and structures. Recently advances in low resource detector technology and the rise in small satellite applications has seen a surge in innovative detector technologies and applications. We seek the latest and most innovative research in the field of sensing and measurement of flame, smoke, and combustion gases. Original research papers, theoretical papers, and critical reviews in all aspects of combustion and emissions sensing, pre- and post-fire assessment, and other aspects of fire monitoring are sought. Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Sensing of heat and flame;
• Measuring carbon and biomass combustion;
• Assessing impacts of burning on climate change;
• Optical and chemical sensors for smoke and gas detection;
• Remote sensing of high temperature events;
• Visible, hyperspectral and thermal imaging;
• Satellite fire detection and monitoring platforms, detectors and systems;
• Automated fire detection and autonomous sensors;
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for fire monitoring;
• Sensors for analysis of smoke and combustion gases and byproducts;
• Fuel and environmental sensing, fire prediction, and burn and severity assessment;
• Hardened sensors for fire environments;
• Wearable sensors for firefighters;
• Sensors for structural fire engineering;
• Sensors for firefighting robotics and uninhabited aerial vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Robert S. Allison
Dr. Joshua Johnston
Prof. Dr. Martin Wooster
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.