We're Team Arson and we're using the power of predictive modeling to combat wildfires.

Overview

Logo We're Team Arson and we're using the power of predictive modeling to combat wildfires.

Arson Map

Inspiration

There’s been a lot of wildfires in California in recent years, and a lot of the most recent wildfires have been uncontained. The government does not have the capacity to deal with such a huge amount of wildfires so it has to pick and choose which fires to bring under control. This picking and choosing should be done based on wildfire and wind data in order to minimize the damage caused by wildfires We should also prioritize mitigating fires that can spread across many counties/ have a large chance of spreading further

What it does

Our project consists of a web app with an interactive map. We represent our wildfire as a MDP and determine how at risk counties are based on the fire location(s).

How we built it

We split the project into 2 main parts: web app and AI

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Artificial Intelligence

  • Represent the wildfire as a MDP (Markov Decision Process)
    • States: Counties
    • Actions: Traversing Counties
    • Probability distribution: generated from wind data
    • Transition Model: generated from wind data
    • Reward function: Uniform for every county burned (prone to change if scaled up)
  • Use bellman equation to iterate through counties and propagate the fire
    • Utility values ranging between 0 and 1 represent how at risk a county is
    • Screenshot
    • Run until utility values reach equilibrium or until 100 iterations are run
    • Gamma = 0.8
  • Represent the map as a graph
    • Counties are nodes
    • Wind speeds are edges
    • Assign each county with a risk (for reward function)
    • Spawn fires on specific counties

Challenges we ran into

Our project has a pretty large scope. We needed to develop a model and integrate it with a web app. This required extensive knowledge on AWS utilities and crisp communication between team members. The machine learning portion of this hackathon was difficult as we had to decide on what type of model to use for the wildfire and how to assign reward and utility values.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to integrate the web app with the model really quickly. This was surprising since usually connecting the pieces together will have a lot of bugs. It was also Austin, Raaj, and Romuz's first hackathons and this was a fairly complex project compared to a standard web app.

What we learned

This hackathon was a first for many of us. This was the first time any of us had implemented a machine learning model and connected it to a web app.

This was my first time at a hackathon and I couldn't have asked for better teammates than Jerry, Raaj, and Romuz. I learned so much over the last two days about machine learning, data science, React, and working as a team to help tackle some of California's greatest challenges. - Austin Rivard

As a first-year student, I have learned a lot of new skill sets while working with this team. I was happy to be a member of such an agile team. I learned numerous of new concepts, such as working with AWS, writing algorithms, and the graph data structures. - Romuz Abdulhamidov

What's next for Arson

  • Scale up to entire California to generate a better map during wildfire season
  • Generate more accurate Reward values for each county burned
  • Incorporate type 2 rewards based on R(state, action)
    • Wildfire gets bigger as it burns more land
    • Wildfire gets smaller in the presence of firefighters
  • Automatically train and deploy models by integrating real-time data for wind and wildfires

Demo

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Owner
Jerry Lee
software engineer
Jerry Lee
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