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wildfire-spread

wildfire spread simulation

FARSITE, WRF-Fire

SystemTechniques · 6Primitives · 28 wildfire-spread Polygon clippinggeometry · medium: Polygon intersection/union/difference (Weiler-Atherton, Martinez) for spatial predicatesRadiometric calibrationmedia · medium: Convert sensor counts to reflectance: radiometric and atmospheric correctionEnsemble kalman filternumerics · medium: Kalman update with covariance estimated from an ensemble; localization and inflation for huge statesLevel set methodsnumerics · medium: Implicit surfaces as signed distance fields: advection, reinitialization, fast marchingTime-series anomaly detectionstatistics · medium: Predict the expected value from a seasonal baseline, scale the residual by a robust spread (MAD), threshold at a chosen false-alarm rate, then merge flags into incidents.›Flux limiters upwindingnumerics · medium: Upwind schemes, TVD flux limiters, MUSCL and Riemann solvers for shock-capturing advectionPoint in polygongeometry · low: Ray-casting/winding tests and indexed polygon lookup for reverse geocodingFinite differencesnumerics · low: Replace derivatives with weighted differences of grid values; simple stencils plus a stability condition (CFL) turn PDEs like heat, advection and waves into array loops.›Geospatial cell index (geohash, S2,…geometry · low: Map a lat/lon to a 64-bit cell id on a hierarchical grid, so "near" becomes an integer range scan in any ordinary sorted index.›Line simplificationgeometry · low: Douglas-Peucker and Visvalingam polyline simplificationMap projectionsgeometry · low: Web Mercator, UTM and equal-area projections, datums and coordinate transformsVector tile encodinggeometry · low: Mapbox Vector Tile protobuf: zigzag-delta geometry commands, layers and feature attributesCellular automatagraphics · low: Grid cells updated by local rules (Life, cave generation, Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic)Dijkstra's algorithmgraphs · low: Single-source shortest paths with non-negative edge weights by settling vertices in order of distance with a priority queue.›Common alerting protocolnetworking · low: CAP alert message format: areas as polygons/circles, severity, urgency, multilingual info blocksConjugate gradientnumerics · low: Krylov iteration for symmetric positive definite Ax = b using one matrix-vector product and two dot products per step; converges in about √κ iterations.›Monte Carlo integrationnumerics · low: Estimate an expectation by averaging random samples; error falls as σ/√N in any dimension, and variance reduction (antithetic, control variates, importance sampling) shrinks σ.›d-ary heapdata-structures · low: Array heap with d children per node (d = 4 typical): half the binary heap's depth, siblings in one cache line, faster priority queues.›Exact geometric predicatesgeometry · low: Robust orient and incircle tests with adaptive-precision floats (Shewchuk) or exact arithmeticSpline interpolationnumerics · low: Linear, bilinear/trilinear and cubic spline interpolation on grids and tablesRobust statisticsstatistics · low: Location and scale estimates (median, MAD, trimmed mean, Huber M-estimator) that stay correct when a minority of the data is garbage.›LU and Cholesky factorizationnumerics · low: Factor A = PLU (any square matrix, partial pivoting) or A = LLᵀ (SPD) once in O(n³), then solve each right-hand side in O(n²).›+ 12 more primitives

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