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classes | slow_fire bool 2
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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); noscenarii/*.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 asint16with 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) / 10000.0burn_map.npy— oracle / ground-truth dynamic risk map used in Table 3. Stored asfloat32in [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):
- Load each frame as grayscale (
L). - Normalize:
pixel / 255.0→ float in ([0,1]). - Binarize with threshold 0.5:
(arr >= 0.5).astype(float). - 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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