no code implementations • 9 Apr 2024 • Dimitrios Michail, Lefki-Ioanna Panagiotou, Charalampos Davalas, Ioannis Prapas, Spyros Kondylatos, Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos, Ioannis Papoutsis
With climate change expected to exacerbate fire weather conditions, the accurate anticipation of wildfires on a global scale becomes increasingly crucial for disaster mitigation.
1 code implementation • 19 Jun 2023 • Ioannis Prapas, Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos, Spyros Kondylatos, Dimitrios Michail, Gustau Camps-Valls, Ioannis Papoutsis
To achieve such accurate long-term forecasts at a global scale, it is crucial to employ models that account for the Earth system's inherent spatio-temporal interactions, such as memory effects and teleconnections.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Spyros Kondylatos, Ioannis Prapas, Gustau Camps-Valls, Ioannis Papoutsis
We introduce Mesogeos, a large-scale multi-purpose dataset for wildfire modeling in the Mediterranean.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2022 • Ioannis Prapas, Akanksha Ahuja, Spyros Kondylatos, Ilektra Karasante, Eleanna Panagiotou, Lazaro Alonso, Charalampos Davalas, Dimitrios Michail, Nuno Carvalhais, Ioannis Papoutsis
We train a deep learning model, which treats global wildfire forecasting as an image segmentation task and skillfully predicts the presence of burned areas 8, 16, 32 and 64 days ahead of time.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2021 • Ioannis Prapas, Spyros Kondylatos, Ioannis Papoutsis, Gustau Camps-Valls, Michele Ronco, Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres, Maria Piles Guillem, Nuno Carvalhais
Wildfire forecasting is of paramount importance for disaster risk reduction and environmental sustainability.