Reinforcement Learning for Wildfire Mitigation in Simulated Disaster Environments
Climate change has resulted in a year over year increase in adverse weather and weather conditions which contribute to increasingly severe fire seasons. Without effective mitigation, these fires pose a threat to life, property, ecology, cultural heritage, and critical infrastructure. To better prepare for and react to the increasing threat of wildfires, more accurate fire modelers and mitigation responses are necessary. In this paper, we introduce SimFire, a versatile wildland fire projection simulator designed to generate realistic wildfire scenarios, and SimHarness, a modular agent-based machine learning wrapper capable of automatically generating land management strategies within SimFire to reduce the overall damage to the area. Together, this publicly available system allows researchers and practitioners the ability to emulate and assess the effectiveness of firefighter interventions and formulate strategic plans that prioritize value preservation and resource allocation optimization. The repositories are available for download at https://github.com/mitrefireline.
Code (1)
Tasks
Managementreinforcement-learningReinforcement LearningMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Evaluating Undergrounding Decisions for Wildfire Ignition Risk Mitigation across Multiple Hazards
With electric power infrastructure increasingly susceptible to impacts from climate-driven natural disasters, there is an increasing need for optimization algorithms that determine where to harden the power grid. Prior w…
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response
This study develops a deep reinforcement learning framework for training Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) agents to navigate and monitor simulated wildfire environments. Results show that agents learn increasingly stable an…
Multi-agent Reinforcement LearningIntegrating earth observation data into the tri-environmental evaluation of the economic cost of natural disasters: a case study of 2025 LA wildfire
Wildfires in urbanized regions, particularly within the wildland-urban interface, have significantly intensified in frequency and severity, driven by rapid urban expansion and climate change. This study aims to provide a…
Earth ObservationManagementMulti-time Predictions of Wildfire Grid Map using Remote Sensing Local Data
Due to recent climate changes, we have seen more frequent and severe wildfires in the United States. Predicting wildfires is critical for natural disaster prevention and mitigation. Advances in technologies in data proce…
ManagementTime SeriesTime Series AnalysisTowards AI-driven Integrative Emissions Monitoring & Management for Nature-Based Climate Solutions
AI has been proposed as an important tool to support several efforts related to nature-based climate solutions such as the detection of wildfires that affect forests and vegetation-based offsets. While this and other use…
Decision MakingDisaster ResponseManagement