Predicting the Continuous Spatiotemporal State of Ground Fire Based on the Expended LSTM Model with Self-Attention Mechanisms
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Small-Scale Ground Fire Experiments
2.2. Data Preprocessing
2.2.1. Preprocessing for Combustion Images
2.2.2. Preprocessing for Environmental Variables
2.3. The Task Definition of Predicting the Combustion Image Sequence
2.4. The State-of-the-Art Spatiotemporal Prediction Models
2.5. The Self-Attention Mechanism
2.6. The Structure of the SA-EX-LSTM
2.7. Performance Metrics
3. Results
The Influence of Different Input Sequence Lengths on Model Prediction
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Num | Combustibles | Combustible Area | Combustible Weight | Combustible Load | Bed Depth | Moisture Content | Experimental Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Leaf wood | 4 × 5 m2 | 17.895 kg | 1.482 kg/m2 | 5.64 cm | 12.2% | 126.7524° E, 45.5726° N |
2 | Leaf wood | 6.5 × 7.5 m2 | 42.86 kg | 1.199 kg/m2 | 6.08 cm | 12.1% | |
3 | Leaf wood | 6.5 × 7.5 m2 | 44.275 kg | 1.201 kg/m2 | 6.0 cm | 12.5% | |
4 | Leaf wood | 8.5 × 8.5 m2 | 110.345 kg | 1.543 kg/m2 | 5.0 cm | 13.9% | |
5 | Conifer | 5.5 × 7.3 m2 | 71.915 kg | 1.791 kg/m2 | 5.0 cm | 12.8% | |
6 | Conifer | 5.5 × 7 m2 | 91.06 kg | 2.454 kg/m2 | 7.0 cm | 13.1% | |
7 | Sylvestris | 7.5 × 7.5 m2 | 92.565 kg | 1.6098 kg/m2 | 5.0 cm | 13.3% | |
8 | Sylvestris | 5 × 8 m2 | 55.6 kg | 1.39 kg/m2 | 6.05 cm | 13.0% | |
9 | Poplar leaves | 5 × 8 m2 | 96.7 kg | 2.4175 kg/m2 | 5.0 cm | 14.0% |
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Wang, X.; Wang, X.; Zhang, M.; Tang, C.; Li, X.; Sun, S.; Wang, Y.; Li, D.; Li, S. Predicting the Continuous Spatiotemporal State of Ground Fire Based on the Expended LSTM Model with Self-Attention Mechanisms. Fire 2023, 6, 237. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6060237
Wang X, Wang X, Zhang M, Tang C, Li X, Sun S, Wang Y, Li D, Li S. Predicting the Continuous Spatiotemporal State of Ground Fire Based on the Expended LSTM Model with Self-Attention Mechanisms. Fire. 2023; 6(6):237. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6060237
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Xinyu, Xinquan Wang, Mingxian Zhang, Chun Tang, Xingdong Li, Shufa Sun, Yangwei Wang, Dandan Li, and Sanping Li. 2023. "Predicting the Continuous Spatiotemporal State of Ground Fire Based on the Expended LSTM Model with Self-Attention Mechanisms" Fire 6, no. 6: 237. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6060237