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Since frequent severe droughts are lengthening the dry season in the Amazon Rainforest, it is important to detect wildfires promptly and forecast possible spread for effective suppression response. Current wildfire detection models are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Christopher Sun

Identifying regions that have high likelihood for wildfires is a key component of land and forestry management and disaster preparedness. We create a data set by aggregating nearly a decade of remote-sensing data and historical fire records…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Fantine Huot , R. Lily Hu , Matthias Ihme , Qing Wang , John Burge , Tianjian Lu , Jason Hickey , Yi-Fan Chen , John Anderson

Climate change has largely impacted our daily lives. As one of its consequences, we are experiencing more wildfires. In the year 2020, wildfires burned a record number of 8,888,297 acres in the US. To awaken people's attention to climate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yang Li , Hermawan Mulyono , Ying Chen , Zhiyin Lu , Desmond Chan

Research has shown that climate change creates warmer temperatures and drier conditions, leading to longer wildfire seasons and increased wildfire risks in the United States. These factors have in turn led to increases in the frequency,…

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

Forest loss due to natural events, such as wildfires, represents an increasing global challenge that demands advanced analytical methods for effective detection and mitigation. To this end, the integration of satellite imagery with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Valeria Martin , K. Brent Venable , Derek Morgan

The increasing incidence and severity of wildfires underscores the necessity of accurately predicting their behavior. While high-fidelity models derived from first principles offer physical accuracy, they are too computationally expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 John Burge , Matthew R. Bonanni , R. Lily Hu , Matthias Ihme

Wildfires in urbanized regions, particularly within the wildland-urban interface, have significantly intensified in frequency and severity, driven by rapid urban expansion and climate change. This study aims to provide a comprehensive,…

General Economics · Economics 2025-05-06 Zongrong Li , Haiyang Li , Yifan Yang , Siqin Wang , Yingxin Zhu

This research addresses the pressing challenge of enhancing processing times and detection capabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/drone imagery for global wildfire detection, despite limited datasets. Proposing a Segmented Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Aditya V. Jonnalagadda , Hashim A. Hashim

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

This article delves into the analysis of performance and utilization of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for the critical task of forest fire detection using image datasets. With the increasing threat of forest fires to ecosystems and human…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-11 Ankan Kar , Nirjhar Nath , Utpalraj Kemprai , Aman

Wildfires pose significant threats to ecosystems, economies, and communities worldwide, necessitating advanced predictive methods for effective mitigation. This study introduces a novel and comprehensive dataset specifically designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ayoub Jadouli , Chaker El Amrani

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

Wildfire forecasting is of paramount importance for disaster risk reduction and environmental sustainability. We approach daily fire danger prediction as a machine learning task, using historical Earth observation data from the last decade…

The escalating intensity and frequency of wildfires demand innovative computational methods for rapid and accurate property damage assessment. Traditional methods are often time-consuming, while modern computer vision approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Miguel Esparza , Archit Gupta , Kai Yin , Yiming Xiao , Ali Mostafavi

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

The rise of Deepfake technology to generate hyper-realistic manipulated images and videos poses a significant challenge to the public and relevant authorities. This study presents a robust Deepfake detection based on a modified Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Saksham Kumar , Rhythm Narang

Rapid detection and well-timed intervention are essential to mitigate the impacts of wildfires. Leveraging remote sensed data from satellite networks and advanced AI models to automatically detect hotspots (i.e., thermal anomalies caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Luca Barco , Angelica Urbanelli , Claudio Rossi

Early detection of forest fires is crucial to minimizing the environmental and socioeconomic damage they cause. Indeed, a fire's duration directly correlates with the difficulty and cost of extinguishing it. For instance, a fire burning for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Kenneth Bonilla-Ormachea , Horacio Cuizaga , Edwin Salcedo , Sebastian Castro , Sergio Fernandez-Testa , Misael Mamani

Wildfire forecasting has been one of the most critical tasks that humanities want to thrive. It plays a vital role in protecting human life. Wildfire prediction, on the other hand, is difficult because of its stochastic and chaotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Thai-Nam Hoang , Sang Truong , Chris Schmidt