Nikolaos Anastasiou

Nikolaos Anastasiou

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Nikolaos Anastasiou

Orion Laboratory, National Observatory of Athens, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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1Year (2026-Present)

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2 April 2026 in IEEE Access
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NANikolaos Anastasiou
Nikolaos Anastasiou
SKSpyros Kondylatos
Spyros Kondylatos
Ioannis PapoutsisIoannis Papoutsis
Ioannis Papoutsis
Accurate prediction of wildfire spread is crucial for effective risk management, emergency response, and strategic resource allocation. In this study, we present a Deep Learning (DL)-based framework for forecasting the final extent of burned areas, using data available at the time of ignition. We leverage a spatio-temporal dataset that covers the Mediterranean region from 2006 to 2022, incorporating remote sensing data, reanalysis meteorological observations, vegetation maps, land cover classifications, topography data, and thermal anomalies. To evaluate the influence of temporal context, we conduct an ablation study examining how the inclusion of pre- and post-ignition data affects model performance, benchmarking the temporal-aware DL models against a baseline trained exclusively on ignition-day inputs. Our results indicate that multi-day observational data substantially improve predictive accuracy. Particularly, the best-performing model, incorporating a temporal window of four days before to five days after ignition, improves both the F1 score and the Intersection over Union by almost 5% in comparison to the baseline on the test dataset. We publicly release our dataset and models to enhance research into data-driven approaches for wildfire modeling and response.