README.md

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# Next Day Wildfire Spread Dataset

This dataset is an `xarray` version of the original [Next Day Wildfire Spread](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/fantineh/next-day-wildfire-spread/data) dataset.
It comes in three splits: `train`, `eval` and `test`.

**Note:** Given the original dataset does not contain spatio-temporal information, the xarray coordinates has been set to arbitrary ranges (0-63 for spatial dimensions and 0-number_of_samples for the temporal dimension). 

## Example

To open a `train` split of the dataset and show an `elevation` plot at `time=2137`:

```python
import xarray as xr

ds = xr.open_zarr("train.zarr")
ds["elevation"].sel(time=2137).plot.imshow(origin="upper")
```


![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6407733ca5e2ff2832ede5e1/TKJ-2aXGLbp1_YmtzomDw.png)


## Credits 

For more details regarding the dataset contents, please refer to the authors of the original dataset and their paper: [F. Huot, R. L. Hu, N. Goyal, T. Sankar, M. Ihme, and Y.-F. Chen, “Next Day Wildfire Spread: A Machine Learning Data Set to Predict Wildfire Spreading from Remote-Sensing Data”, arXiv preprint, 2021.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02447)