Wildfire Time-of-Arrival Reconstruction from Satellite Active-Fire Detections: External Evaluation of Variance-Weighted Kriging and Application to South Korea
Large wildfires cause casualties, ecosystem damage, and property loss. Reducing them requires predicting spread; validating a spread model requires pixel-level time of arrival (ToA) from real fires. Few regions have both such data and an independent reference. We combine polar-orbiting (VIIRS) and geostationary (GOES,...