Data-driven surrogate model with latent data assimilation: Application to wildfire forecasting

S Cheng, IC Prentice, Y Huang, Y Jin, YK Guo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The large and catastrophic wildfires have been increasing across the globe in the recent
decade, highlighting the importance of simulating and forecasting fire dynamics in near real …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring and cordoning wildfires with an autonomous swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles

F Saffre, H Hildmann, H Karvonen, T Lind - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are already an integral part of the equipment used by
firefighters to monitor wildfires. They are, however, still typically used only as remotely …

[HTML][HTML] Towards mountain fire safety using fire spread predictive analytics and mountain fire containment in iot environment

Imran, N Iqbal, S Ahmad, DH Kim - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mountains are popular tourist destinations due to their climate, fresh atmosphere,
breathtaking sceneries, and varied topography. However, they are at times exposed to …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction and data mining of burned areas of forest fires: Optimized data matching and mining algorithm provides valuable insight

DA Wood - Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
An optimized data-matching machine learning algorithm is developed to provide high-
prediction accuracy of total burned areas for specific wildfire incidents. It is applied to a well …

Combined estimation of fire perimeters and fuel adjustment factors in FARSITE for forecasting wildland fire propagation

T Zhou, L Ding, J Ji, L Yu, Z Wang - Fire safety journal, 2020 - Elsevier
As bias and uncertainties inevitably exist on both wildland fire model states and parameters,
fire simulations do not always accurately forecast the temporal and spatial progression of …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid prediction of wildfire spread using ensemble Kalman filter and polyline simplification

S Yoo, J Song - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new method for rapid prediction of wildfire spread, which employs
computational wildfire simulations by FARSITE and assimilates the simulation results with …

Thermal infrared video stabilization for aerial monitoring of active wildfires

MM Valero, S Verstockt, B Butler… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Measuring wildland fire behavior is essential for fire science and fire management. Aerial
thermal infrared (TIR) imaging provides outstanding opportunities to acquire such …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the Performance of Fire Rate of Spread Models in Northern-European Calluna vulgaris Heathlands

CD Minsavage-Davis, GM Davies - Fire, 2022 - mdpi.com
Land-use, climate, and policy changes have impacted the fire regimes of many landscapes
across northern Europe. Heathlands in oceanic climates are globally important ecosystems …

[PDF][PDF] Wildfire Models–Concise Review

KRA Pillai, YEAD Sultan - International Journal of Innovative …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Theoretical fire model is aimed at speed of computation while approximating the key physics
through only a few terrain-related inputs and tunable parameters representing fire intensity …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning approach to downscale geostationary satellite imagery for decision support in high impact wildfires

NF McCarthy, A Tohidi, Y Aziz, M Dennie, MM Valero… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Scarcity in wildland fire progression data as well as considerable uncertainties in forecasts
demand improved methods to monitor fire spread in real time. However, there exists at …