Mesogeos: A multi-purpose dataset for data-driven wildfire modeling in the Mediterranean

Mesogeos is a multi-purpose dataset facilitating the development of deep learning models for wildfire-related applications in the Mediterranean.

Mesogeos can be used to extract ML-ready datasets tailored to several wildfire applications like wildfire danger forecasting, final burned area prediction, burned area size prediction and others.

For more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05144 

More information and a link for downloading the dataset can be found here: https://github.com/Orion-AI-Lab/mesogeos

A website is maintained here: https://orion-ai-lab.github.io/mesogeos/

Mesogeos contains variables related to the ignition and spread of wildfires, as well as for several fire drivers (vegetation, weather, human-related) for the years 2006 to 2022 at a daily 1km x 1km grid.

Specifically it contains the following variables:

• satellite data from MODIS (Land Surface Temperature (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod11a1v061/), Normalized Vegetation Index (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod13a2v061/), Leaf Area Index (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod15a2hv061/))
• weather variables from ERA5-Land (max daily temperature, max daily dewpoint temperature, min daily relative humidity, max daily wind speed, max daily surface pressure, mean daily surface solar radiation downwards) (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/10.24381/cds.e2161bac?tab=overview)
• soil moisture index from JRC European Drought Observatory (https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/home.static.html)
• population count (https://hub.worldpop.org/geodata/listing?id=64) & distance to roads (https://hub.worldpop.org/geodata/listing?id=33) from worldpop.org
• land cover from Copernicus Climate Change Service (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-land-cover?tab=overview)
• elevation, aspect, slope and curvature from Copernicus EU-DEM (https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1?tab=download)
• burned areas and ignition points from EFFIS (https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/applications/data-and-services)

Datacube Metadata:

• Temporal Extent: (2006-04-01, 2022-09-29)
• Spatial Extent: (-10.72, 30.07, 36.74, 47.7), i.e. the wider Mediterranean region.
• Coordinate Reference System: EPSG:4326