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Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning: Global Perspectives and Local Challenges

BurnMD: A Fire Projection and Mitigation Modeling Dataset

Marissa Dotter · Tim Welsh · Savanna Smith · Lauren Schambach

Keywords: [ Time-series analysis ] [ Climate science and climate modeling ] [ Computer vision and remote sensing ] [ Forestry and other land use ]


Abstract:

Today's fire projection modeling tools struggle to keep up with the rapid rate and increasing severity of climate change, leaving disaster managers dependent on tools which are increasingly unrepresentative of complex interactions between fire behavior, environmental conditions, and various mitigation options. This has consequences for equitably minimizing wildfire risks to life, property, ecology, cultural heritage, and public health. Fortunately, decades of data exist for fuel populations, weather conditions, and outcomes of significant fires in the American West and globally. The fire management community faces a lack of data standardization and validation among many competing fire models. Likewise, the machine learning community lacks curated datasets and benchmarks to develop solutions necessary to generate impact in this space. We present a novel dataset composed of 308 medium sized fires from the years 2018-2021, complete with both time series airborne based inference and ground operational estimation of fire extent, and operational mitigation data such as control line construction. As the first large wildfire dataset with mitigation information, Burn Mitigation Dataset (BurnMD) will help advance fire projection modeling, fire risk modeling, and AI generated land management policies.

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