Table 7 Feature importance estimation based on feature groups. Certain feature groups are exclude and model’s performance is estimated for the third fire spreading day.

From: Wildfire spreading prediction using multimodal data and deep neural network approach

 

IoU

F1-score

MAE

All features are included (forecast for the third day)

0.529

0.664

19.7 sq km

Land cover, NDVI, EVI

− 10%

− 6.3%

+ 33.3%

Fraction of PA radiation absorbed by green vegetation, LAI

− 8.3%

− 5.3%

+ 16.9%

DEM, average aspect and slope

− 4.3%

− 1.8%

+ 4.1%

Daytime and nighttime land surface temperature

− 3%

− 1.1%

+ 8.2%

Daytime and nighttime land surface temperature, air temperature at a height of 2 meters (min, max)

− 5.1%

− 2.8%

+ 9.5%

Actual and potential evapotranspiration

− 3.8%

− 1.7%

+ 11.5%

The eastern component of the wind (min, max)

− 43.9%

− 36.6%

+ 401.2%

North wind component (min, max)

− 42.7%

− 35.7%

+ 73.7%

Total precipitation (min, max)

− 1.3%

+ 0.3%

− 0.6%

Actual and potential evapotranspiration, total precipitation (min, max)

− 3.6%

− 1.5%

+ 11%