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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.62
An Evaluation of the Impact of Ignition Location Uncertainty on Forest Fire Ignition Prediction Using Bayesian Logistic Regression (Short Paper)

Authors: David Röbl, Rizwan Bulbul, Johannes Scholz, Mortimer M. Müller, and Harald Vacik

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

Abstract
This study investigates the impact of location uncertainty on the predictive performance of Bayesian Logistic Regression (BLR) for forest fire ignition prediction in Austria. Historical forest fire ignitions are used to create a dataset for training models with the capability to assess the general forest fire ignition susceptibility. Each recorded fire ignition contains a timestamp, the estimated location of the ignition and a radius defining the area within which the unknown true location of the ignition point is located. As the values of the predictive features are calculated based on the assumed location, and not the unknown true location, the training data is biased due to input uncertainties. This study is set to assess the impact of input data uncertainty on the predictive performance of the model. For this we use a data binning approach that splits the input data into groups based on their location uncertainty and use them later for training multiple BLR models. The predictive performance of the models is then compared based on their accuracy, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) scores and brier scores. The study revealed that higher location uncertainty leads to decreased accuracy and AUC score, accompanied by an increase in the brier score, while demonstrating that the BLR model trained on a smaller high-quality dataset outperforms the model trained on the full dataset, despite its smaller size. The study’s contribution is to provide insights into the practical implications of location uncertainty on the quality of forest fire susceptibility predictions, with potential implications for forest risk management and forest fire documentation.
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David Röbl, Rizwan Bulbul, Johannes Scholz, Mortimer M. Müller, and Harald Vacik. An Evaluation of the Impact of Ignition Location Uncertainty on Forest Fire Ignition Prediction Using Bayesian Logistic Regression (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 62:1-62:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{robl_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.62,
  author =	{R\"{o}bl, David and Bulbul, Rizwan and Scholz, Johannes and M\"{u}ller, Mortimer M. and Vacik, Harald},
  title =	{{An Evaluation of the Impact of Ignition Location Uncertainty on Forest Fire Ignition Prediction Using Bayesian Logistic Regression}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{62:1--62:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.62},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189576},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.62},
  annote =	{Keywords: Forest Fire Prediction, Ignition Location Uncertainty, Bayesian Logistic Regression, Bayesian Inference, Probabilistic Programming}
}
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Short Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.63
Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments (Short Paper)

Authors: Dominik Rothschedl, Franz Welscher, Franziska Hübl, Ivan Majic, Daniele Giannandrea, Matthias Wastian, Johannes Scholz, and Niki Popper

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

Abstract
Shadow calculation is an important prerequisite for many urban and environmental analyses such as the assessment of solar energy potential. We propose a neural net approach that can be trained with 3D geographical information and predict the presence and depth of shadows. We adapt a U-Net algorithm traditionally used in biomedical image segmentation and train it on sections of Styria, Austria. Our two-step approach first predicts binary existence of shadows and then estimates the depth of shadows as well. Our results on the case study of Styria, Austria show that the proposed approach can predict in both models shadows with over 80% accuracy which is satisfactory for real-world applications, but still leaves room for improvement.
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Dominik Rothschedl, Franz Welscher, Franziska Hübl, Ivan Majic, Daniele Giannandrea, Matthias Wastian, Johannes Scholz, and Niki Popper. Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 63:1-63:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{rothschedl_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.63,
  author =	{Rothschedl, Dominik and Welscher, Franz and H\"{u}bl, Franziska and Majic, Ivan and Giannandrea, Daniele and Wastian, Matthias and Scholz, Johannes and Popper, Niki},
  title =	{{Calculating Shadows with U-Nets for Urban Environments}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{63:1--63:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.63},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189581},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.63},
  annote =	{Keywords: Neural Net, U-Net, Residual Net, Shadow Calculation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.82
Harnessing the Sunlight on Facades - an Approach for Determining Vertical Photovoltaic Potential (Short Paper)

Authors: Franz Welscher, Ivan Majic, Franziska Hübl, Rizwan Bulbul, and Johannes Scholz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

Abstract
The paper deals with the calculation of the photovoltaic potential of vertical structures. Photovoltaic systems are a core technology for producing renewable energy. As roughly 50% of the population on planet Earth lives in urban environments, the production of renewable energy in urban contexts is of particular interest. As several papers have elaborated on the photovoltaic potential of roofs, this paper focuses on vertical structures. Hence, we present a methodology to extract facades suitable for photovoltaic installation, calculate their southness and percentage of shaded areas. The approach is successfully tested, based on a dataset located in the city of Graz, Styria (Austria). The results show the wall structures of each building, the respective shadow depth, and their score based on a multi-criteria analysis that represents the suitability for the installation of a photovoltaic system.
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Franz Welscher, Ivan Majic, Franziska Hübl, Rizwan Bulbul, and Johannes Scholz. Harnessing the Sunlight on Facades - an Approach for Determining Vertical Photovoltaic Potential (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 82:1-82:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{welscher_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.82,
  author =	{Welscher, Franz and Majic, Ivan and H\"{u}bl, Franziska and Bulbul, Rizwan and Scholz, Johannes},
  title =	{{Harnessing the Sunlight on Facades - an Approach for Determining Vertical Photovoltaic Potential}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{82:1--82:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.82},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189777},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.82},
  annote =	{Keywords: Vertical Photovoltaics, Facades, Southness, Multi-Criteria-Analysis, Shadow}
}
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