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Due to climate change and the disruption of ecosystems worldwide, wildfires are increasingly impacting environment, infrastructure, and human lives globally. Additionally, an exacerbating climate crisis means that these losses would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Rohan Tan Bhowmik , Youn Soo Jung , Juan Aguilera , Mary Prunicki , Kari Nadeau

As wildfires are expected to become more frequent and severe, improved prediction models are vital to mitigating risk and allocating resources. With remote sensing data, valuable spatiotemporal statistical models can be created and used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Alissa Chavalithumrong , Hyung-Jin Yoon , Petros Voulgaris

Accurate assessment of fuel conditions is a prerequisite for fire ignition and behavior prediction, and risk management. The method proposed herein leverages diverse data sources including Landsat-8 optical imagery, Sentinel-1 (C-band)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Riyaaz Uddien Shaik , Mohamad Alipour , Eric Rowell , Bharathan Balaji , Adam Watts , Ertugrul Taciroglu

In recent years, the increasing prevalence and intensity of wildfires have posed significant challenges to emergency response teams. The utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, has shown promise in aiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Chang Liu , Tamas Sziranyi

The increasing accessibility of radiometric thermal imaging sensors for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers significant potential for advancing AI-driven aerial wildfire management. Radiometric imaging provides per-pixel temperature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Bryce Hopkins , Leo ONeill , Michael Marinaccio , Eric Rowell , Russell Parsons , Sarah Flanary , Irtija Nazim , Carl Seielstad , Fatemeh Afghah

Modern fire management systems increasingly rely on satellite data and weather forecasting; however, access to comprehensive datasets remains limited due to proprietary restrictions. Despite the ecological significance of wildfires,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Boris Kriuk

Climate change has intensified extreme weather and wildfire conditions globally. Canada experienced record-breaking wildfires in 2023 and 2025, burning millions of hectares and severely impacting the Prairie provinces, with Manitoba facing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xiang Shi , Peng Hu

Predicting wildfire spread is critical for land management and disaster preparedness. To this end, we present `Next Day Wildfire Spread,' a curated, large-scale, multivariate data set of historical wildfires aggregating nearly a decade of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Fantine Huot , R. Lily Hu , Nita Goyal , Tharun Sankar , Matthias Ihme , Yi-Fan Chen

Early detection of wildfires is essential to prevent large-scale fires resulting in extensive environmental, structural, and societal damage. Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can cover large remote areas effectively with quick deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Julius Pesonen , Teemu Hakala , Väinö Karjalainen , Niko Koivumäki , Lauri Markelin , Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola , Juha Suomalainen , Ilkka Pölönen , Eija Honkavaara

The understanding and prediction of large wildland fire events around the world is a growing interdisciplinary research area advanced rapidly by development and use of computational models. Recent models bidirectionally couple computational…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 J. L. Coen , W. Schroeder , S. Conway , L. Tarnay

Climate change is intensifying wildfire risks globally, making reliable forecasting critical for adaptation strategies. While machine learning shows promise for wildfire prediction from Earth observation data, current approaches lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aditya Chakravarty

Increasingly frequent wildfires significantly affect solar energy production as the atmospheric aerosols generated by wildfires diminish the incoming solar radiation to the earth. Atmospheric aerosols are measured by Aerosol Optical Depth…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-24 Guanzhou Wei , Venkat Krishnan , Yu Xie , Manajit Sengupta , Yingchen Zhang , Haitao Liao , Xiao Liu

Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, causing both water scarcity and severe rainfall unpredictability, and posing threats to sustainable development, biodiversity, and access to water and sanitation. This paper aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Luigi Russo , Francesco Mauro , Babak Memar , Alessandro Sebastianelli , Paolo Gamba , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Wildfires are an escalating global concern due to the devastating impacts on the environment, economy, and human health, with notable incidents such as the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires and the 2025 California wildfires underscoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weihao Li , Hongjin Zhao , Gao Zhu , Ge-Peng Ji , Nicholas Wilson , Marta Yebra , Nick Barnes

Active fire detection in satellite imagery is of critical importance to the management of environmental conservation policies, supporting decision-making and law enforcement. This is a well established field, with many techniques being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Gabriel Henrique de Almeida Pereira , André Minoro Fusioka , Bogdan Tomoyuki Nassu , Rodrigo Minetto

The Kondinin region in Western Australia faces significant agricultural challenges due to pervasive weed infestations, causing economic losses and ecological impacts. This study constructs a tailored multispectral remote sensing dataset and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Haitian Wang , Muhammad Ibrahim , Yumeng Miao , D ustin Severtson , Atif Mansoor , Ajmal S. Mian

Climate change has resulted in a year over year increase in adverse weather and weather conditions which contribute to increasingly severe fire seasons. Without effective mitigation, these fires pose a threat to life, property, ecology,…

Emergency events involving fire are potentially harmful, demanding a fast and precise decision making. The use of crowdsourcing image and videos on crisis management systems can aid in these situations by providing more information than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daniel Y. T. Chino , Letricia P. S. Avalhais , Jose F. Rodrigues , Agma J. M. Traina

Small unmanned aircraft can help firefighters combat wildfires by providing real-time surveillance of the growing fires. However, guiding the aircraft autonomously given only wildfire images is a challenging problem. This work models noisy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In recent decades, wildfires, as widespread and extremely destructive natural disasters, have caused tremendous property losses and fatalities, as well as extensive damage to forest ecosystems. Many fire risk assessment projects have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Shuchang Shen , Sachith Seneviratne , Xinye Wanyan , Michael Kirley