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Download fileBig data integration shows Australian bush-fire frequency is increasing significantly
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posted on 2023-05-18, 16:50 authored by Dutta, R, Das, A, Jagannath AryalIncreasing Australian bush-fire frequencies over the last decade has indicated a major climatic change in coming future. Understanding such climatic change for Australian bush-fire is limited and there is an urgent need of scientific research, which is capable enough to contribute to Australian society. Frequency of bush-fire carries information on spatial, temporal and climatic aspects of bush-fire events and provides contextual information to model various climate data for accurately predicting future bush-fire hot spots. In this study, we develop an ensemble method based on a two-layered machine learning model to establish relationship between fire incidence and climatic data. In a 336 week data trial, we demonstrate that the model provides highly accurate bush-fire incidence hot-spot estimation (91% global accuracy) from the weekly climatic surfaces. Our analysis also indicates that Australian weekly bush-fire frequencies increased by 40% over the last 5 years, particularly during summer months, implicating a serious climatic shift.
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Royal Society Open ScienceArticle number
150241Number
150241Pagination
1-11ISSN
2054-5703Department/School
Tasmanian School of MedicinePublisher
The Royal Society PublishingPlace of publication
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