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

S Cheng, IC Prentice, Y Huang, Y **, 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 …

Fire behavior modeling for operational decision-making

A Cardil, S Monedero, G Schag, S de-Miguel… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Simulation frameworks are necessary to facilitate decision-making to many fire agencies. An
accurate estimation of fire behavior is required to analyze potential impact and risk. Applied …

Review and perspectives of digital twin systems for wildland fire management

Y Li, T Zhang, Y Ding, R Wadhwani… - Journal of Forestry …, 2025 - Springer
Effective wildland fire management requires real-time access to comprehensive and distilled
information from different data sources. The Digital Twin technology becomes a promising …

Wildland fire spread modeling using convolutional neural networks

JL Hodges, BY Lattimer - Fire technology, 2019 - Springer
The computational cost of predicting wildland fire spread across large, diverse landscapes is
significant using current models, which limits the ability to use simulations to develop …

Real-time wildfire monitoring with a fleet of UAVs

R Bailon-Ruiz, A Bit-Monnot, S Lacroix - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a wildfire monitoring system based on a fleet of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) to provide firefighters with precise and up-to-date information about a …

Learning-based prediction of wildfire spread with real-time rate of spread measurement

C Zhai, S Zhang, Z Cao, X Wang - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
A learning-based wildfire spread model was developed in this study to predict short-term
wildfire spread. Real-time rate of spread (RoS) measurement was first conducted by …

An integrated approach for tactical monitoring and data-driven spread forecasting of wildfires

MM Valero, O Rios, C Mata, E Pastor, E Planas - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent times there have been increasing efforts to integrate technology into wildfire
management, especially in the fields of tactical monitoring and simulation. On the one hand …

Automated location of active fire perimeters in aerial infrared imaging using unsupervised edge detectors

MM Valero, O Rios, E Pastor… - International journal of …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
A variety of remote sensing techniques have been applied to forest fires. However, there is
at present no system capable of monitoring an active fire precisely in a totally automated …

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 …

Evaluation of a data-driven wildland fire spread forecast model with spatially-distributed parameter estimation in simulations of the FireFlux I field-scale experiment

C Zhang, M Rochoux, W Tang, M Gollner, JB Filippi… - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
The general objective of this research is to develop a prototype data-driven wildland fire
spread simulator, called FIREFLY, using an ensemble-based data assimilation approach …