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A Real-time Multimodal Transformer Neural Network-powered Wildfire Forecasting System

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05971v2
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:22:04 GMT
Title: A Real-time Multimodal Transformer Neural Network-powered Wildfire Forecasting System
Authors: Qijun Chen, Shaofan Li,
Abstract summary: The extreme wildfire has become one of the most dangerous natural hazards to human civilization.<n>To accurately forecast wildfire occurrence has become one of most urgent and taunting environmental challenges in global scale.<n>In this work, we developed a real-time Multimodal Transformer Neural Network Machine Learning model that practically forecast the occurrence of wildfire at the precise location in real time.
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Abstract: Due to climate change, the extreme wildfire has become one of the most dangerous natural hazards to human civilization. Even though, some wildfires may be initially caused by human activity, but the spread of wildfires is mainly determined by environmental factors, for examples, (1) weather conditions such as temperature, wind direction and intensity, and moisture levels; (2) the amount and types of dry vegetation in a local area, and (3) topographic or local terrian conditions, which affects how much rain an area gets and how fire dynamics will be constrained or faciliated. Thus, to accurately forecast wildfire occurrence has become one of most urgent and taunting environmental challenges in global scale. In this work, we developed a real-time Multimodal Transformer Neural Network Machine Learning model that combines several advanced artificial intelligence techniques and statistical methods to practically forecast the occurrence of wildfire at the precise location in real time, which not only utilizes large scale data information such as hourly weather forecasting data, but also takes into account small scale topographical data such as local terrain condition and local vegetation conditions collecting from Google Earth images to determine the probabilities of wildfire occurrence location at small scale as well as their timing synchronized with weather forecast information. By using the wildfire data in the United States from 1992 to 2015 to train the multimodal transformer neural network, it can predict the probabilities of wildfire occurrence according to the real-time weather forecast and the synchronized Google Earth image data to provide the wildfire occurrence probability in any small location ($100m^2$) within 24 hours ahead.

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