Comparing a gradient boosting algorithm to the GOES FDC for wildfire detection

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arXiv:2610.01994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wildfires pose severe risks to human life, ecosystems, and property. This study presents a machine learning approach for wildfire detection from GOES ABI imagery. A CatBoost model was trained on a large dataset with thousands of ABI images and over 300,000 matching VIIRS fire detections. An evaluation on a separate dataset across five regions showed that the learned CatBoost model outperformed the operational GOES Fire Detection and Characterizat