AI Augmentation to Remote Sensing Imagery in Forestry Conservation & Restoration for Increased Responsive Capabilities

DM Gandikota, T Gladkova, KA Tran… - 2022 IEEE Applied …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Responsive forestry management is critical to carbon management and climate change
mitigation. The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special …

Birth-death-suppression Markov process and wildfires

G Hulsey, DL Alderson, J Carlson - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Birth and death Markov processes can model stochastic physical systems from percolation
to disease spread and, in particular, wildfires. We introduce and analyze a birth-death …

Taming" data-hungry" reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces

Y Duan, MJ Wainwright - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05233, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce a novel framework for analyzing reinforcement learning (RL) in continuous
state-action spaces, and use it to prove fast rates of convergence in both off-line and on-line …

Advancing Forest Fire Prevention: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Effective Firebreak Placement

L Murray, T Castillo, J Carrasco, A Weintraub… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the past decades, the increase in both frequency and intensity of large-scale wildfires
due to climate change has emerged as a significant natural threat. The pressing need to …

[PDF][PDF] PyroRL: A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Wildfire Evacuation

J Guman, JC O'Brien, C Pondoc… - Journal of Open Source …, 2024 - joss.theoj.org
A major effect of climate change today is the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires.
This reality has led to increased research in wildfire response, particularly with …

Controlling the low-temperature Ising model using spatiotemporal Markov decision theory

MC de Jongh, RJ Boucherie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
We introduce the spatiotemporal Markov decision process (STMDP), a special type of
Markov decision process that models sequential decision-making problems which are not …

Cybersecurity Strategies for Smart Cities

M Sindhuja, K Alice, AM Nancy… - Harnessing AI in …, 2025 - igi-global.com
In the era of rapid technological advancements, cities worldwide are rapidly evolving into
“smart cities,” leveraging technology to enhance the lives of their residents. However, this …

Modelling and optimization of unmanned aerial vehicles trajectories using machine learning for collection of data from ground sensors for forest fire scenarios

S Sarathchandra - 2024 - oulurepo.oulu.fi
Forest fires are rapidly spreading fires that occur in natural areas, causing significant
damage to ecosystems, property, and human lives. Wildfire detection is essential for …

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Spatio-Temporal Wildlife Management

A Singh - 2023 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
De siste 50 årene har globale dyrelivsbestander opplevd betraktelig nedgang som har ført til
en biologisk mangfoldskrise hvor et betydelig antall dyrearter har blitt utrydningstruet. Denne …