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DroneBench Dataset (clean release)

Wildfire monitoring layouts for benchmarking sensor placement and drone routing (NeurIPS 2026 Datasets & Benchmarks anonymous submission).

Summary

Attribute Value
Layouts in data archive 56 (49 + 7 tables23 extras)
Tables 2/3 split 471 scenarios / 12 layouts
Fire-spread JPG in Satellite_Images_Mask/
Risk maps burn_map.npy (oracle), static_risk_bp2024.npy (BP)

Large archives

  • DroneBench_data.tar — layouts (JPG + burn/BP + ancillary); no scenarii/*.npy

Loading indices

from datasets import load_dataset
REPO = "anonymoussubmission2/anonymous-submission-neurips26-2831"
ds = load_dataset(REPO, "default")       # full index
ds_t23 = load_dataset(REPO, "tables23")  # Tables 2/3 split

Selection rule for the Tables 2/3 split: layouts with ≥80% historical ignition match (splits/SELECTION_RULE.md).

Risk-map encoding (important)

  • static_risk_bp2024.npy — USFS Burn Probability (BP), the independent risk map used in Table 2. Stored as int16 with raw grid values typically in ~11–385 (not unit probabilities). These are FSim annual burn probability × 10 000 (USFS BP scaling). Convert to ([0,1]) with:
    import numpy as np
    bp = np.load("static_risk_bp2024.npy").astype(np.float32) / 10000.0
    
  • burn_map.npy — oracle / ground-truth dynamic risk map used in Table 3. Stored as float32 in [0, 1], shape (T, H, W) (mean burn fraction over scenarios at each time).

Legacy static_risk.npy is not shipped (it was a duplicate of BP under another name).

Fire-spread JPG encoding / thresholding

Scenarios live in Satellite_Images_Mask/<layout>_<scenario>/ as grayscale JPG frames (lossy).

Official preprocessing (code/dataset.py → load_scenario_jpg, used by preprocess_sim2real_dataset / jpg_scenario_to_npy):

  1. Load each frame as grayscale (L).
  2. Normalize: pixel / 255.0 → float in ([0,1]).
  3. Binarize with threshold 0.5: (arr >= 0.5).astype(float).
  4. Stack frames → NPY array shape (T, H, W).

JPEG compression can introduce mild artifacts; regenerating scenarii/*.npy with the library before experiments is recommended. Weather and other modalities in the release are unused by the current baseline strategies.

Ignition time offsets (config_s2r.json)

config_s2r.json maps offset_<layout>_<scenario> → integer hours to prepend empty frames when building burn maps / aligning scenarios. Coverage: all 7 746 scenarios in the default index and all 56 layouts (plus 7 single-scenario extras → 7 753 offset keys).

Citation

@inproceedings{anonymous_neurips2026_dronebench,
  title     = {A Benchmark for Sensor Placement and Drone Routing for Wildfire Detection},
  author    = {Anonymous},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2026 Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Anonymous submission}
}
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