Wildfire prediction to inform fire management: statistical science challenges

SW Taylor, DG Woolford, CB Dean, DL Martell - 2013 - projecteuclid.org
Wildfire is an important system process of the earth that occurs across a wide range of
spatial and temporal scales. A variety of methods have been used to predict wildfire …

The role of UAV-IoT networks in future wildfire detection

OM Bushnaq, A Chaaban… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The challenge of wildfire management and detection is recently gaining increased attention
due to the increased severity and frequency of wildfires worldwide. Popular fire detection …

[HTML][HTML] Limitations on the accuracy of model predictions of wildland fire behaviour: a state-of-the-knowledge overview

E AlexanderMartin, G CruzMiguel - The forestry chronicle, 2013 - pubs.cif-ifc.org
The degree of accuracy in model predictions of wildland fire behaviour characteristics are
dependent on the model's applicability to a given situation, the validity of the model's …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Development and structure of Prometheus: the Canadian wildland fire growth simulation model

C Tymstra, RW Bryce, BM Wotton… - … Report NOR-X-417 …, 2010 - epe.lac-bac.gc.ca
Accurate, high-resolution fire behavior prediction is a critical component of fire management
decision-making before and during fires. Prometheus is a deterministic fire growth …

Distributed wildfire surveillance with autonomous aircraft using deep reinforcement learning

KD Julian, MJ Kochenderfer - Journal of Guidance, Control, and …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Teams of autonomous unmanned aircraft can be used to monitor wildfires, enabling
firefighters to make informed decisions. However, controlling multiple autonomous fixed …

A method for ensemble wildland fire simulation

MA Finney, IC Grenfell, CW McHugh, RC Seli… - … Modeling & Assessment, 2011 - Springer
An ensemble simulation system that accounts for uncertainty in long-range weather
conditions and two-dimensional wildland fire spread is described. Fuel moisture is …

Distributed deep reinforcement learning for fighting forest fires with a network of aerial robots

RN Haksar, M Schwager - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a distributed deep reinforcement learning (RL) based strategy for a
team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to autonomously fight forest fires. We first model …

Modeling wildfire spread in wildland-industrial interfaces using dynamic Bayesian network

N Khakzad - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Global warming and the subsequent increase in the frequency and severity of wildfires
demand for specialized risk assessment and management methodologies to cope with the …

[图书][B] Fuzzy differential equations and applications for engineers and scientists

S Chakraverty, S Tapaswini, D Behera - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Differential equations play a vital role in the modeling of physical and engineering problems,
such as those in solid and fluid mechanics, viscoelasticity, biology, physics, and many other …