Modeling of dynamic processes on the Earth’s surface

Due to global climate change, the probability of damage from natural and man-made disasters has increased. These processes are becoming less predictable in scale and impact. If we consider the heterogeneous natural and anthropogenic processes on the surface of the Earth, we can see that despite their different physical nature they have the following common features. All these processes, due to their characteristic dimensions, are amenable to mapping. In this regard, the use of GIS technologies in their modeling becomes necessary. Remote monitoring methods can be applied to all classes of such dynamic processes. From the point of view of control theory, the listed objects are objects with distributed parameters and distributed control. The possible methods of controlling these processes are similar and often do not depend on the nature of the process. The purpose of this work is to create and implement models of dynamics and control of the above processes as GIS-oriented multi-agent systems based on the use of the formalism of embedded Petri nets. At the same time, as a specific process, on the example of which modeling and control methods are considered in more detail, wildfire is selected.