Ecological Informatics • Vol 82
Capturing and interpreting wildfire spread dynamics: attention-based spatiotemporal models using ConvLSTM networks
August 2024 • Arif Masrur, Manzhu Yu, Alan H. Taylor
Predicting the trajectory of geographical events, such as wildfire spread, presents a formidable task due to the dynamic associations among influential biophysical factors. Geo-events like wildfires frequently display short and long-range spatial and temporal correlations. Short-range effects are the direct contact and near-contact spread of the fire front. Long-range effects are represented by processes such as spotting, where firebrands carried by the wind ignite fires distant from the flaming front, altering th…