Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent

Forest fire is a serious global natural disaster that occurs frequently and is characterized by its suddenness, destructiveness, and difficulty in emergency response. Therefore, it’s of great importance to research forest fire risk assessment and prediction to protect the ecological environment of f...

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Main Authors: Zexin Fu, Adu Gong, Jinhong Wan, Wanru Ba, Haihan Wang, Jiaming Zhang
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-01-01
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Adu Gong
Jinhong Wan
Wanru Ba
Haihan Wang
Jiaming Zhang
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Jinhong Wan
Wanru Ba
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Jiaming Zhang
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description Forest fire is a serious global natural disaster that occurs frequently and is characterized by its suddenness, destructiveness, and difficulty in emergency response. Therefore, it’s of great importance to research forest fire risk assessment and prediction to protect the ecological environment of forests, respond to disaster damage in time and mitigate the effect of disasters. Most of the current related research methods rely on a stable operating environment and high raw data accuracy, the number of influencing factors considered is always different from the actual in many ways, and there is no systematic validation, etc., which makes the feasibility insufficient. In this study, a comprehensive method for forest fire risk assessment and prediction is proposed using a back-propagation neural network (BPNN) optimized by the stochastic average gradient descent (SAGD) algorithm. The model is based on the Regional Disaster System Theory (RDST), and incorporates 11 indicators of meteorological, vegetation, and human activity factors from the aspects of hazard-formative factor, hazard-formative environment, and hazard-affected body, and achieves a prediction accuracy of 94.38% and a coefficient of determination of 0.9581 when compared with historical data and the Global Fire Weather Index (FWI). The results demonstrate that the SAGD optimization improves the performance of the BPNN, offers a pragmatic solution for forest fire risk assessment in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and facilitates the enhancement of its disaster preparedness and response capabilities, thereby mitigating the adverse effects of forest fires.
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spelling doaj-art-441ec1177b71406dbfbc86befd8077972025-01-31T05:10:27ZengElsevierEcological Indicators1470-160X2025-01-01170113006Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descentZexin Fu0Adu Gong1Jinhong Wan2Wanru Ba3Haihan Wang4Jiaming Zhang5Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disasters of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR ChinaKey Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disasters of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China; Corresponding author.China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, PR ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR ChinaForest fire is a serious global natural disaster that occurs frequently and is characterized by its suddenness, destructiveness, and difficulty in emergency response. Therefore, it’s of great importance to research forest fire risk assessment and prediction to protect the ecological environment of forests, respond to disaster damage in time and mitigate the effect of disasters. Most of the current related research methods rely on a stable operating environment and high raw data accuracy, the number of influencing factors considered is always different from the actual in many ways, and there is no systematic validation, etc., which makes the feasibility insufficient. In this study, a comprehensive method for forest fire risk assessment and prediction is proposed using a back-propagation neural network (BPNN) optimized by the stochastic average gradient descent (SAGD) algorithm. The model is based on the Regional Disaster System Theory (RDST), and incorporates 11 indicators of meteorological, vegetation, and human activity factors from the aspects of hazard-formative factor, hazard-formative environment, and hazard-affected body, and achieves a prediction accuracy of 94.38% and a coefficient of determination of 0.9581 when compared with historical data and the Global Fire Weather Index (FWI). The results demonstrate that the SAGD optimization improves the performance of the BPNN, offers a pragmatic solution for forest fire risk assessment in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and facilitates the enhancement of its disaster preparedness and response capabilities, thereby mitigating the adverse effects of forest fires.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24014638Forest FireDisaster RiskGradient DescentNeural Network
spellingShingle Zexin Fu
Adu Gong
Jinhong Wan
Wanru Ba
Haihan Wang
Jiaming Zhang
Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
Ecological Indicators
Forest Fire
Disaster Risk
Gradient Descent
Neural Network
title Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
title_full Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
title_fullStr Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
title_full_unstemmed Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
title_short Forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
title_sort forest fire risk assessment model optimized by stochastic average gradient descent
topic Forest Fire
Disaster Risk
Gradient Descent
Neural Network
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24014638
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