AkrAyoub/RICER-Summer-Research-2026

Private collaborative research repository for the RICER Summer 2026 project: AI-driven forest-fire risk prediction for climate resilience in Morocco. # RICER Summer Research 2026 **RICER — Resilient Infrastructures and Coordinated Emergency Response** Collaborative research repository for the Summer 2026 RICER research component at the Digital Innovation Lab (DIL), Al Akhawayn University. ## Project Goal Develop an AI-driven wildfire-risk-prediction framework for Morocco, with an initial focus on the Middle Atlas region. The research component investigates: - Earth Observation data - environmental, climatic, vegetation, and topographic indicators - operational fire-risk information from SYSFEU, when applicable - baseline and enhanced machine-learning models - IBM/NASA Prithvi Earth Observation Foundation Models - Agentic AI for data orchestration, monitoring, and decision support - reproducible MLOps pipelines - integration of validated risk layers into the existing RICER application ## Repository Design This repository separates: 1. **Stable project documentation** 2. **Previous RICER work audits** 3. **Dataset and literature reviews** 4. **Exploratory workstreams owned by team members** 5. **Integrated implementation code** 6. **Experiments, results, and deliverables** ## Repository Navigation | Folder | Purpose | |---|---| | `01_Project_Overview/` | Objectives, team roles, glossary, and research scope | | `02_Weekly_Progress/` | Weekly reports, meeting notes, decisions, priorities, and blockers | | `03_Data_and_Resources/` | Dataset registry, audits, schemas, approved samples, and access guidance | | `04_Literature_and_References/` | Paper summaries, reading lists, and topic-specific notes | | `05_Previous_RICER_Work/` | Audit of prior RICER assets, application, datasets, and XGBoost work | | `06_MLOps_Pipelines/` | Data, modeling, Agentic AI, deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure designs | | `07_Technical_Implementation/` | Integrated project code, notebooks, scripts, environments, and configs | | `08_Experiments_and_Results/` | Experiment registry, metrics, comparisons, artifacts metadata, and …