WildfireSpreadTS: A dataset of multi-modal time series for wildfire spread prediction

We present a multi-temporal, multi-modal remote-sensing dataset for predicting how active wildfires will spread at a resolution of 24 hours. The dataset consists of 13.607 images across 607 fire events in the United States from January 2018 to October 2021. For each fire event, the dataset contains a full time series of daily observations, containing detected active fires and variables related to fuel, topography and weather conditions.

Documentation

WildfireSpreadTS_Documentation.pdf includes further details about the dataset, following Gebru et al.'s "Datasheets for Datasets" framework. This documentation is similar to the supplementary material of the associated NeurIPS paper, excluding only information about experimental setup and results. For full details, please refer to the associated paper. 

Code: Getting started

Get started working with the dataset at https://github.com/SebastianGer/WildfireSpreadTS. 

The code includes a PyTorch Dataset and Lightning DataModule to allow for easy access. We recommend converting the GeoTIFF files provided here to HDF5 files (bigger files, but much faster). The necessary code is also available in the repository.

This work is funded by Digital Futures in the project EO-AI4GlobalChange. The computations were enabled by resources provided by the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) at C3SE partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2022-06725.