Assessment on the Use of Meteorological and Social Media Information for Forest Fire Detection and Prediction in Riau, Indonesia

Anni Arumsari Fitriany, Piotr J. Flatau, Khoirunurrofik Khoirunurrofik () and Nelly Florida Riama
Additional contact information
Anni Arumsari Fitriany: Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia
Piotr J. Flatau: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Nelly Florida Riama: Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta 10720, Indonesia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 20, 1-13

Abstract: In this study, tweets related to fires in Riau, Sumatra, were identified using carefully selected keywords for the 2014–2019 timeframe. The TAGGS algorithm was applied, which allows for geoparsing based on the user’s nationality and hometown and on direct referrals to specific locations such as name of province or name of city in the message itself. Online newspapers covering Riau were analyzed for the year 2019 to provide additional information about the reasons why fires occurred and other factors, such as impact on people’s health, animal mortality related to ecosystem disruption, visibility, decrease in air quality and limitations in the government firefighting response. Correlation analysis between meteorological information, Twitter activity and satellite-derived hotspots was conducted. The existing approaches that BMKG and other Indonesian agencies use to detect fire activity are reviewed and a novel approach for early fire detection is proposed based on the crowdsourcing of tweets. The policy implications of these results suggest that crowdsourced data can be included in the fire management system in Indonesia to support early fire detection and fire disaster mitigation efforts.

Keywords: forest fires; meteorology; newspaper; policy; Tweeter; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/20/11188/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/20/11188/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:20:p:11188-:d:653373

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().