PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMUM CONFIGURATION OF A FOREST VIDEO MONITORING SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to the field of video surveillance. A plurality of parameters is collected relating to the characteristics of monitoring points and of the territory in which they are arranged. A system performance indicator is set which is an integrated quantity described by a probability model that generalizes at least a portion of the parameters. Monitoring point arrangement options in a plurality of possible positions within the territory are assessed by determining, for a proposed arrangement of monitoring points, an optimum set of parameters which optimizes the performance indicator, wherein the performance indicator is calculated with variation of the controllable parameters. The optimum configuration of the system is determined by comparing the resulting options for the arrangement of monitoring points for which optimum sets of parameters have been determined, and the arrangement option with the best performance indicator value is selected. The invention provides a method that makes it possible to obtain, on the basis of readily accessible data, accurate evaluations of the efficacy of installing and using a forest video monitoring system, and to determine the optimum configuration of the system on the basis of such evaluations.