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Rapid and accurate wildfire detection is crucial for emergency response and environmental management. In airborne and spaceborne missions, real-time algorithms must distinguish between no fire, active fire, and post-fire conditions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mark Moussa , Andre Williams , Seth Roffe , Douglas Morton

Forest wildfires represent one of the catastrophic events that, over the last decades, caused huge environmental and humanitarian damages. In addition to a significant amount of carbon dioxide emission, they are a source of risk to society…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Daniele Rege Cambrin , Luca Colomba , Paolo Garza

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an increasingly crucial role in supporting disaster emergency response efforts by analyzing aerial images. While current deep-learning models focus on improving accuracy, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Yanbing Bai , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura

As sadly known, forest fires are part of a set of natural disasters that have always affected regions of the world typically characterized by a tropical climate with long periods of drought. However, due to climate changes of the recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Domenico A. G. Dell'Aglio , Massimiliano Gargiulo , Antonio Iodice , Daniele Riccio , Giuseppe Ruello

As a consequence of global warming and climate change, the risk and extent of wildfires have been increasing in many areas worldwide. Warmer temperatures and drier conditions can cause quickly spreading fires and make them harder to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ozer Can Devecioglu , Mete Ahishali , Fahad Sohrab , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj

Smoke segmentation is critical for wildfire management and industrial safety applications. Traditional visible-light-based methods face limitations due to insufficient spectral information, particularly struggling with cloud interference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Lujian Yao , Haitao Zhao , Xianghai Kong , Yuhan Xu

Wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent, with potentially devastating consequences, including loss of life, infrastructure destruction, and severe environmental damage. Low Earth orbit satellites equipped with onboard sensors can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Brycen D. Pearl , Joshua G. Warner , Hang Woon Lee

Predicting the extent of massive wildfires once ignited is essential to reduce the subsequent socioeconomic losses and environmental damage, but challenging because of the complexity of fire behaviour. Existing physics-based models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bo Pang , Sibo Cheng , Yuhan Huang , Yufang Jin , Yike Guo , I. Colin Prentice , Sandy P. Harrison , Rossella Arcucci

There have been many recent developments in the use of Deep Learning Neural Networks for fire detection. In this paper, we explore an early warning system for detection of forest fires. Due to the lack of sizeable datasets and models tuned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sharjeel Ahmed , Daim Armaghan , Fatima Naweed , Umair Yousaf , Ahmad Zubair , Murtaza Taj

Identifying terrain within satellite image data is a key issue in geographical information sciences, with numerous environmental and safety implications. Many techniques exist to derive classifications from spectral data captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 David R. Treadwell , Derek Jacoby , Will Parkinson , Bruce Maxwell , Yvonne Coady

Early wildfire detection in remote and forest areas is crucial for minimizing devastation and preserving ecosystems. Autonomous drones offer agile access to remote, challenging terrains, equipped with advanced imaging technology that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Austin Briley , Fatemeh Afghah

Wildfires are a growing threat to ecosystems, human lives, and infrastructure, with their frequency and intensity rising due to climate change and human activities. Early detection is critical, yet satellite-based monitoring remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Aydin Ayanzadeh , Prakhar Dixit , Sadia Kamal , Milton Halem

Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, and its short atmospheric half-life makes it a prime target to rapidly curb global warming. However, current methane emission monitoring techniques primarily rely on approximate emission…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Bertrand Rouet-Leduc , Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre Tuel , Claudia Hulbert

The size and frequency of wildland fires in the western United States have dramatically increased in recent years. On high-fire-risk days, a small fire ignition can rapidly grow and become out of control. Early detection of fire ignitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anshuman Dewangan , Yash Pande , Hans-Werner Braun , Frank Vernon , Ismael Perez , Ilkay Altintas , Garrison W. Cottrell , Mai H. Nguyen

This paper tackles the challenging problem of detecting methane plumes, a potent greenhouse gas, using Sentinel-2 imagery. This contributes to the mitigation of rapid climate change. We propose a novel deep learning solution based on U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Khai Duc Minh Tran , Hoa Van Nguyen , Aimuni Binti Muhammad Rawi , Hareeshrao Athinarayanarao , Ba-Ngu Vo

Quantitative estimate of observational uncertainty is an essential ingredient to correctly interpret changes in climatic and environmental variables such as wildfires. In this work we compare four state-of-the-art satellite fire products…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Marco Turco , Sixto Herrera , Etienne Tourigny , Emilio Chuvieco , Antonello Provenzale

Multispectral Sentinel-2 images are a valuable source of Earth observation data, however spatial resolution of their spectral bands limited to 10 m, 20 m, and 60 m ground sampling distance remains insufficient in many cases. This problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Tomasz Tarasiewicz , Jakub Nalepa , Reuben A. Farrugia , Gianluca Valentino , Mang Chen , Johann A. Briffa , Michal Kawulok

Delineating wildfire affected areas using satellite imagery remains challenging due to irregular and spatially heterogeneous spectral changes across the electromagnetic spectrum. While recent deep learning approaches achieve high accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Maria Sdraka , Dimitrios Michail , Ioannis Papoutsis

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

Interpreting remote sensing imagery enables numerous downstream applications ranging from land-use planning to deforestation monitoring. Robustly classifying this data is challenging due to the Earth's geographic diversity. While many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jonathan Roberts , Kai Han , Samuel Albanie