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Monitoring Wildfire Dynamics with Remote Sensing

A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 11421

Special Issue Editors

Dr. José M. P. do Nascimento

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Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, ISEL - Lisbon School of Engineering and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: electronic engineering and telecommunications and computers; fire; remote sensing
Dr. Houda Harkat

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School of Science and Technology, UNINOVA-CTS and LASI, NOVA University of Lisboa, 2829-516 Monte Caparica, Portugal
Interests: airborne fire detection; firefront forecast; decision support information systems; wildfire
Dr. Saad Dosse Bennani

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National School of Applied Sciences of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco
Interests: energy; transmission lines; antennas; signal processing
Dr. Hasmath Farhana Thariq Ahmed

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Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Interests: fire image detection; gesture recognition; machine learning; deep learning; sign language recognition

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forest fires are one of the most devastating factors in most vegetation zones worldwide, including forests and grasslands. Forest fires pose a challenge to ecosystem management since they can be both useful and detrimental. Drones, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and remote sensing technology can be extremely useful in estimating the risk of forest fires across wide areas. Drones and UAVs are low-cost solutions with limited battery options. Thus, it does not provide round-the-clock monitoring. Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) have emerged as vital technologies for mapping forest structure and providing critical fundamental information to enhance predictions of forest disasters. Coarse spatial detail optical satellites, some of which operate in constellations of many micro-satellites, give spatially comprehensive data with a substantial temporal revisit rate, which can increasingly fit the knowledge demands linked to rescue efforts or disturbance occurrences.

This Special Issue invites submissions for papers that cover all elements of aerial image/video capture and processing (RGB/Infra-red, hyperspectral/multispectral, LiDAR/Radar data), as well as advanced artificial intelligence-based fire detection systems. The following topics are included, but are not limited to:

  • Building 3D models of forest environments using exploiting acquired aircraft images/videos and LiDAR/radar data.
  • Building mathematical models for fire propagation in forest environment relying on sensors data.
  • Automatic detection and localization of flames based on machine learning algorithms over RGB and hyperspectral images/videos
  • Real-time wildfire monitoring and forecasting frameworks.
  • Measure of Wildfire risk to support decision-making.
  • Mapping of wildfire based on Multitemporal Multispectral satellite data and probabilistic mathematical models.
  • Classification of vegetations changes based on satellites data.
  • Data treatment of internet of things (IoT) Sensor Networks for Decision Support in wildfire management.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. José M. P. do Nascimento
Dr. Houda Harkat
Dr. Saad Dosse Bennani
Dr. Hasmath Farhana Thariq Ahmed
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • fire detection
  • flames
  • machine learning
  • vegetation
  • satellites
  • LiDAR
  • radar
  • images
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
  • remote sensing

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Estimating Fire Radiative Energy Density with Repeat-Pass Aerial Thermal-Infrared Imaging of Actively Progressing Wildfires
by Alexander J. McFadden, Douglas A. Stow, Philip J. Riggan, Robert Tissell, John O’Leary and Henry Scharf
Fire 2024, 7(6), 179; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7060179 - 23 May 2024
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Studies on estimating cumulative fire intensity from spreading wildland fires based on fire radiative energy density (FRED) have primarily been conducted through controlled experiments. The objective of this study was to assess the potential for estimating FRED for freely-burning wildfires at landscape scales. [...] Read more.
Studies on estimating cumulative fire intensity from spreading wildland fires based on fire radiative energy density (FRED) have primarily been conducted through controlled experiments. The objective of this study was to assess the potential for estimating FRED for freely-burning wildfires at landscape scales. Airborne thermal infrared image sequences collected 8 and 9 December 2017 during the Thomas Fire were used for surface temperature derivation and FRED estimation. Sensitivity of varying ambient temperatures, and a newly developed method that adjusts for ash radiances on fire radiative flux density (FRFD) and FRED estimates were tested. Pixel-level image classification was run to identify FRFD time sequences that were complete or incomplete because of cloud obscuration and provided the basis for an obscuration gap filling technique. Variations in estimated ambient temperature used to estimate FRFD had little impact on FRED estimates, while our ash adjustment led to notable differences. An exponential decay model characterized FRFD time sequences well, providing a basis for gap filling irregular sequences caused by atmospheric obscuration. FRED estimates were regressed on rate of spread (ROS) magnitudes and found to be positively and significantly correlated. FRED magnitudes were higher on 9 December when the Thomas Fire burned under higher wind speeds and lower relative humidity levels (Santa Ana weather conditions) than on 8 December. Full article
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Fire and Smoke Detection Using Fine-Tuned YOLOv8 and YOLOv7 Deep Models
by Mohamed Chetoui and Moulay A. Akhloufi
Fire 2024, 7(4), 135; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7040135 - 12 Apr 2024
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Viewed as a significant natural disaster, wildfires present a serious threat to human communities, wildlife, and forest ecosystems. The frequency of wildfire occurrences has increased recently, with the impacts of global warming and human interaction with the environment playing pivotal roles. Addressing this [...] Read more.
Viewed as a significant natural disaster, wildfires present a serious threat to human communities, wildlife, and forest ecosystems. The frequency of wildfire occurrences has increased recently, with the impacts of global warming and human interaction with the environment playing pivotal roles. Addressing this challenge necessitates the ability of firefighters to promptly identify fires based on early signs of smoke, allowing them to intervene and prevent further spread. In this work, we adapted and optimized recent deep learning object detection, namely YOLOv8 and YOLOv7 models, for the detection of smoke and fire. Our approach involved utilizing a dataset comprising over 11,000 images for smoke and fires. The YOLOv8 models successfully identified fire and smoke, achieving a mAP:50 of 92.6%, a precision score of 83.7%, and a recall of 95.2%. The results were compared with a YOLOv6 with large model, Faster-RCNN, and DEtection TRansformer. The obtained scores confirm the potential of the proposed models for wide application and promotion in the fire safety industry. Full article
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Relationships of Fire Rate of Spread with Spectral and Geometric Features Derived from UAV-Based Photogrammetric Point Clouds
by Juan Pedro Carbonell-Rivera, Christopher J. Moran, Carl A. Seielstad, Russell A. Parsons, Valentijn Hoff, Luis Á. Ruiz, Jesús Torralba and Javier Estornell
Fire 2024, 7(4), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7040132 - 11 Apr 2024
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with RGB, multispectral, or thermal cameras have demonstrated their potential to provide high-resolution data before, during, and after wildfires and prescribed burns. Pre-burn point clouds generated through the photogrammetric processing of UAV images contain geometrical and spectral information [...] Read more.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with RGB, multispectral, or thermal cameras have demonstrated their potential to provide high-resolution data before, during, and after wildfires and prescribed burns. Pre-burn point clouds generated through the photogrammetric processing of UAV images contain geometrical and spectral information of vegetation, while active fire imagery allows for deriving fire behavior metrics. This paper focuses on characterizing the relationship between the fire rate of spread (RoS) in prescribed burns and a set of independent geometrical, spectral, and neighborhood variables extracted from UAV-derived point clouds. For this purpose, different flights were performed before and during the prescribed burning in seven grasslands and open forest plots. Variables extracted from the point cloud were interpolated to a grid, which was sized according to the RoS semivariogram. Random Forest regressions were applied, obtaining up to 0.56 of R2 in the different plots studied. Geometric variables from the point clouds, such as planarity and the spectral normalized blue–red difference index (NBRDI), are related to fire RoS. In analyzing the results, the minimum value of the eigenentropy (Eigenentropy_MIN), the mean value of the planarity (Planarity_MEAN), and percentile 75 of the NBRDI (NBRDI_P75) obtained the highest feature importance. Plot-specific analyses unveiled distinct combinations of geometric and spectral features, although certain features, such as Planarity_MEAN and the mean value of the grid obtained from the standard deviation of the distance between points (Dist_std_MEAN), consistently held high importance across all plots. The relationships between pre-burning UAV data and fire RoS can complement meteorological and topographic variables, enhancing wildfire and prescribed burn models. Full article
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Identifying Influential Spatial Drivers of Forest Fires through Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression Coupled with a Continuous Invasive Weed Optimization Algorithm
by Parham Pahlavani, Amin Raei, Behnaz Bigdeli and Omid Ghorbanzadeh
Fire 2024, 7(1), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7010033 - 18 Jan 2024
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Identifying the underlying factors derived from geospatial and remote sensing data that contribute to forest fires is of paramount importance. It aids experts in pinpointing areas and periods most susceptible to these incidents. In this study, we employ the geographically and temporally weighted [...] Read more.
Identifying the underlying factors derived from geospatial and remote sensing data that contribute to forest fires is of paramount importance. It aids experts in pinpointing areas and periods most susceptible to these incidents. In this study, we employ the geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) method in conjunction with a refined continuous invasive weed optimization (CIWO) algorithm to assess certain spatially relevant drivers of forest fires, encompassing both biophysical and anthropogenic influences. Our proposed approach demonstrates theoretical utility in addressing the spatial regression problem by meticulously accounting for the autocorrelation and non-stationarity inherent in spatial data. We leverage tricube and Gaussian kernels to weight the GTWR for two distinct temporal datasets, yielding coefficients of determination (R2) amounting to 0.99 and 0.97, respectively. In contrast, traditional geographically weighted regression (GWR) using the tricube kernel achieved R2 values of 0.87 and 0.88, while the Gaussian kernel yielded R2 values of 0.8138 and 0.82 for the same datasets. This investigation underscores the substantial impact of both biophysical and anthropogenic factors on forest fires within the study areas. Full article
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