Wildfire Detection

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Wildfire detection studies how to identify active flames, thermal anomalies, and smoke from satellites, aircraft, and UAVs, often before fires appear in routine reports. Methods range from thresholding and gradient-boosted classifiers to CNN, YOLO, and U-Net models, pretrained representations, and weakly supervised learning; they use thermal, multispectral, and RGB data, with compact versions designed to run onboard satellites or drones. Benchmarks test transfer across incidents and regions, severe class imbalance, nighttime performance, and RGB-thermal reasoning, while robotic and satellite systems explore coordination under power, bandwidth, and latency limits. Reliable early detection remains difficult in smoke, unfamiliar regions, and rare-fire conditions: larger models and synthetic data do not guarantee generalization, so careful validation and operational reliability are central concerns.

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  1. AI4Fire: Evaluating Large Language Models on Wildfire Tasks

    Oct 7, 2026Yue Zhao, Zuobin Xiong, Xiyang Hu +3LLM EvaluationLLM Grounding

    University of Southern California · University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Arizona State University +1

  2. Construction and Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Near-Real-Time Fire Detection from MTG FCI Imagery

    Oct 4, 2026Asaf Vanunu, Boaz Nadler, Arnon KarnieliWildfire DetectionRemote Sensing

  3. SigLIP2 for aerial fire risk classification

    Oct 2, 2026Yunus Serhat BıçakçıImage ClassificationWildfire Detection

    Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Faculty of Applied Sciences, Marmara University Istanbul, Türkiye

  4. Comparing a gradient boosting algorithm to the GOES FDC for wildfire detection

    Oct 1, 2026Asaf Vanunu, Boaz Nadler, Arnon KarnieliGradient-Boosted Decision TreesWildfire Detection

    The Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sde Boker Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel · The Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel · The Remote Sensing Laboratory, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sde Boker Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84990, Israel +1

  5. WISE: A Lightweight, Weakly-Supervised Model for Onboard Fire Smoke Detection and Localization

    Sep 16, 2026Sha Lu, Yu Sun, Liang Zhao +6Wildfire DetectionRemote Sensing

    Adelaide University, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia · Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia · Thales Alenia Space, Cannes, 06150, France

  6. A Sentinel-2 benchmark dataset for deep-learning active-fire segmentation across 25 California wildfires, July 2020-August 2026

    Sep 14, 2026Shreyan Mitra, Mohammadreza Narimani, Parastoo FarajpoorImage SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    California High School, San Ramon, CA, 94583, USA · Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

  7. D3ARC: Time-Critical Distributed Disaster Detection for Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems

    Sep 7, 2026Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Lina Magoula, Nancy Alonistioti +1Multi-Robot SystemsWildfire Detection

    Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece · Huawei Heisenberg Research Center (Munich), Germany

  8. FractalNet-Based Heterogeneous Federated Learning for Orbital Edge Intelligence in Satellite Mega-Constellations: A Wildfire Case Study

    Sep 1, 2026Sai Puppala, Bhabani P. Sinha, Koushik SinhaHierarchical Federated LearningWildfire Detection

    School of Computing Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901, USA

  9. Impact of Dataset Composition on Embedded Real-Time UAV Wildfire Detection Using Compact YOLO Models

    Aug 1, 2026Eduardo de los Santos, Andre S. Kelbouscas, Ricardo B. Grando +1Synthetic Data AugmentationWildfire Detection

    Robotics and AI Lab, Technological University of Uruguay, Rivera, Uruguay

  10. Spectral-Morphological Attention U-Net: An Efficient Network for Active Wildfire Detection

    Jul 17, 2026Yugong Zeng, Jonathan WuRemote Sensing Image SegmentationWildfire Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4

  11. FlameVQA: A Physically-Grounded UAV Wildfire VQA Benchmark with Radiometric Thermal Supervision

    Jun 25, 2026Mobin Habibpour, John Spodnik, Niloufar Alipour Talemi +1VLM EvaluationVisual Question Answering

    Clemson University · Clemson, SC, USA

  12. ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection via Cooperative Agents in Robotic Systems

    Jun 16, 2026Lina Magoula, Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Nancy Alonistioti +1Wildfire DetectionRobot Task Planning

    Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece · Huawei Heisenberg Research Center (Munich), Germany

  13. A Large Scale Open-Source Image and Video Dataset for Robust Wildfire Detection and Classification

    Jun 8, 2026Emadeldeen Hamdan, Yingyi Luo, B. Ugur Toreyin +4Wildfire DetectionCross-Dataset Generalization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA · Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University, ˙Istanbul, Türkiye · USDA Forest Service Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Washington, USA +1

  14. veriFIRE: an Industrial Case Study in Verifying Consistency Properties for a DNN-Based Wildfire Detection System

    Jun 2, 2026Idan Refaeli, Maya Swisa, Itay Buchnik +5Neural Network VerificationWildfire Detection

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel · Elbit Systems - ISTAR & EW - Elisra L.T.D, Holon, Israel · Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

  15. On-Orbit Real-Time Wildfire Detection Under On-Board Constraints

    May 7, 2026Matthias Rötzer, Veronika Pörtge, Martin Ickerott +6Efficient Neural Network InferenceWildfire Detection

    OroraTech GmbH, St.-Martin-Str. 112, 81669 Munich, Germany · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

  16. AusSmoke meets MultiNatSmoke: a fully-labelled diverse smoke segmentation dataset

    Apr 26, 2026Weihao Li, Hongjin Zhao, Gao Zhu +4Wildfire DetectionRemote Sensing

    Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, Australian National University

  17. WildFireVQA: A Large-Scale Radiometric Thermal VQA Benchmark for Aerial Wildfire Monitoring

    Apr 22, 2026Mobin Habibpour, Niloufar Alipour Talemi, John Spodnik +2Thermal ImagingVisual Question Answering

    Clemson University

  18. Thermal Anomaly Detection using Physics Aware Neuromorphic Networks: Comparison between Raw and L1C Sentinel-2 Data

    Apr 10, 2026Stephen Smith, Cormac Purcell, Gabriele Meoni +2Anomaly DetectionPhysics-Informed ML

    School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia · BolgianTen Ltd., Liverpool, United Kingdom · School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia +3

  19. Governance-Constrained Agentic AI: Blockchain-Enforced Human Oversight for Safety-Critical Wildfire Monitoring

    Apr 5, 2026Ali Akarma, Toqeer Ali Syed, Salman Jan +2Human Oversight of AIAI Agent Governance

    AI Center, Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah 42351, Saudi Arabia · Faculty of Computer Studies, Arab Open University-Bahrain, Manama 32038, Bahrain · Department of Computer Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan +1

  20. Generating Satellite Imagery Data for Wildfire Detection through Mask-Conditioned Generative AI

    Apr 2, 2026Valeria Martin, K. Brent Venable, Derek MorganSynthetic Data AugmentationConditional Image Generation

    Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA · IHMC, Pensacola, FL, USA