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Joint modeling and prediction of massive spatio-temporal wildfire count and burnt area data with the INLA-SPDE approach. (English) Zbl 07685224

Summary: This paper describes the methodology used by the team RedSea in the data competition organized for EVA 2021 conference. We develop a novel two-part model to jointly describe the wildfire count data and burnt area data provided by the competition organizers with covariates. Our proposed methodology relies on the integrated nested Laplace approximation combined with the stochastic partial differential equation (INLA-SPDE) approach. In the first part, a binary non-stationary spatio-temporal model is used to describe the underlying process that determines whether or not there is wildfire at a specific time and location. In the second part, we consider a non-stationary hurdle log-Gaussian Cox process (hurdle-LGCP) for the positive wildfire count data, i.e., an LGCP is used to model the shifted positive count data, and a non-stationary log-Gaussian model for positive burnt area data. Dependence between the positive count data and positive burnt area data is captured by a shared spatio-temporal random effect. Our two-part modeling approach performs well in terms of the prediction score criterion chosen by the data competition organizers. Moreover, our model results show that surface pressure is the most influential driver for the occurrence of a wildfire, whilst surface net solar radiation and surface pressure are the key drivers for large numbers of wildfires, and temperature and evaporation are the key drivers of large burnt areas.

MSC:

62P12 Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics
62M30 Inference from spatial processes
60G70 Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes

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R-INLA
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