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For this reason, an exploratory study on rough and flat terrains was conducted to use and validate the Iterative Ray-Tracing method in combination with a Bearings-Range Extended Kalman Filter as a real-time forest fire georeferencing and filtering algorithm on images captured by an aerial vehicle. The Iterative Ray-Tracing method requires a vehicle equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS), an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), a calibrated camera, and a Digital Elevation Map (DEM). The proposed method receives the real-time input of the GPS, IMU, and the image coordinates of the pixels to georeference (computed by a companion algorithm of fire front detection) and outputs the geographical coordinates corresponding to those pixels. The Unscented Transform B is proposed to characterize the Iterative Ray-Tracing uncertainty. A Bearings-Range filter measurement model is introduced in a sequential filtering architecture to reduce the noise in the measurements, assuming static targets. A performance comparison is done between the Bearings-Only and the Bearings-Range observation models, and between the Extended and Cubature Kalman Filters. In simulation studies with ground truth, without filtering we obtained a georeferencing Root Mean Squared Errors (RMSE) of 30.7 and 43.4 m for the rough and flat terrains respectively, while filtering with the proposed Bearings-Range Extended Kalman Filter showed the best results by reducing the previous RMSE to 11.7 and 19.8 m, respectively. In addition, the comparison of both filter algorithms showed a good performance of Bearings-Range filter which was slightly faster. 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