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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): Ji Hyun Nam; Jongmin Mun; Seongil Jo; Jaeoh Kim
Publication Date: 2024

Since the 1953 truce, the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) has regularly conducted artillery training, posing a risk of wildfires - a threat to both the environment and the public perception of national defense. To assess this risk and aid decision-making within the ROKA, we built a predictive model of wildfires triggered by artillery training. To this end, we combined the ROKA dataset with meteorological database. Given the infrequent occurrence of wildfires (imbalance ratio 1:24 in our dataset), achieving balanced detection of wildfire occurrences and non-occurrences is challenging. Our approach combines a weighted support vector machine with a Gaussian mixture-based oversampling, effectively penalizing misclassification of the wildfires. Applied to our dataset, our method outperforms traditional algorithms (G-mean=0.864, sensitivity=0.956, specificity= 0.781), indicating balanced detection. This study not only helps reduce wildfires during artillery trainings but also provides a practical wildfire prediction method for similar climates worldwide.

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Citation: Nam, Ji Hyun; Mun, Jongmin; Jo, Seongil; Kim, Jaeoh. 2024. Prediction of forest fire risk for artillery military training using weighted support vector machine for imbalanced data. Journal of Classification 41(1):170-189.

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Keywords:
  • fire prediction
  • forest fire
  • imbalanced data
  • military training lands
  • risk prediction
  • South Korea
  • SVM - support vector machines
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FRAMES Record Number: 69120