Explainable Global Wildfire Prediction Models using Graph Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07152v1
• Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:44:41 GMT
• Title: Explainable Global Wildfire Prediction Models using Graph Neural Networks
• Authors: Dayou Chen and Sibo Cheng and Jinwei Hu and Matthew Kasoar and Rossella Arcucci
• Abstract summary: We introduce an innovative Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based model for global wildfire prediction. Our approach transforms global climate and wildfire data into a graph representation, addressing challenges such as null oceanic data locations.
• Score: 2.2389592950633705
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Wildfire prediction has become increasingly crucial due to the escalating impacts of climate change. Traditional CNN-based wildfire prediction models struggle with handling missing oceanic data and addressing the long-range dependencies across distant regions in meteorological data. In this paper, we introduce an innovative Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based model for global wildfire prediction. We propose a hybrid model that combines the spatial prowess of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) with the temporal depth of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. Our approach uniquely transforms global climate and wildfire data into a graph representation, addressing challenges such as null oceanic data locations and long-range dependencies inherent in traditional models. Benchmarking against established architectures using an unseen ensemble of JULES-INFERNO simulations, our model demonstrates superior predictive accuracy. Furthermore, we emphasise the model's explainability, unveiling potential wildfire correlation clusters through community detection and elucidating feature importance via Integrated Gradient analysis. Our findings not only advance the methodological domain of wildfire prediction but also underscore the importance of model transparency, offering valuable insights for stakeholders in wildfire management.

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