# FireSRnet: Geoscience-Driven Super-Resolution of Future Fire Risk from Climate Change

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12353 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12353/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Nov 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Advancing Image Super-resolution Techniques in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.23248/) (2025)
- [Contrastive Learning for Climate Model Bias Correction and Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.07555/) (2022)
- [Widespread Increases in Future Wildfire Risk to Global Forest Carbon Offset Projects Revealed by Explainable AI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.02397/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With fires becoming increasingly frequent and severe across the globe in recent years, understanding climate change's role in fire behavior is critical for quantifying current and future fire risk. However, global climate models typically simulate fire behavior at spatial scales too coarse for local risk assessments. Therefore, we propose a novel approach towards super-resolution (SR) enhancement of fire risk exposure maps that incorporates not only 2000 to 2020 monthly satellite observations of active fires but also local information on land cover and temperature. Inspired by SR architectures, we propose an efficient deep learning model trained for SR on fire risk exposure maps. We evaluate this model on resolution enhancement and find it outperforms standard image interpolation techniques at both 4x and 8x enhancement while having comparable performance at 2x enhancement. We then demonstrate the generalizability of this SR model over northern California and New South Wales, Australia. We conclude with a discussion and application of our proposed model to climate model simulations of fire risk in 2040 and 2100, illustrating the potential for SR enhancement of fire risk maps from the latest state-of-the-art climate models.