Empowering LLM Agents with Geospatial Awareness: Toward Grounded Reasoning for Wildfire Response

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Yiheng, Li, Lingyao, Ma, Zihui, Hu, Qikai, Zhu, Yilun, Deng, Min, Yu, Runlong
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author Chen, Yiheng
Li, Lingyao
Ma, Zihui
Hu, Qikai
Zhu, Yilun
Deng, Min
Yu, Runlong
author_facet Chen, Yiheng
Li, Lingyao
Ma, Zihui
Hu, Qikai
Zhu, Yilun
Deng, Min
Yu, Runlong
contents Effective disaster response is essential for safeguarding lives and property. Existing statistical approaches often lack semantic context, generalize poorly across events, and offer limited interpretability. While Large language models (LLMs) provide few-shot generalization, they remain text-bound and blind to geography. To bridge this gap, we introduce a Geospatial Awareness Layer (GAL) that grounds LLM agents in structured earth data. Starting from raw wildfire detections, GAL automatically retrieves and integrates infrastructure, demographic, terrain, and weather information from external geodatabases, assembling them into a concise, unit-annotated perception script. This enriched context enables agents to produce evidence-based resource-allocation recommendations (e.g., personnel assignments, budget allocations), further reinforced by historical analogs and daily change signals for incremental updates. We evaluate the framework in real wildfire scenarios across multiple LLM models, showing that geospatially grounded agents can outperform baselines. The proposed framework can generalize to other hazards such as floods and hurricanes.
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spellingShingle Empowering LLM Agents with Geospatial Awareness: Toward Grounded Reasoning for Wildfire Response
Chen, Yiheng
Li, Lingyao
Ma, Zihui
Hu, Qikai
Zhu, Yilun
Deng, Min
Yu, Runlong
Artificial Intelligence
Effective disaster response is essential for safeguarding lives and property. Existing statistical approaches often lack semantic context, generalize poorly across events, and offer limited interpretability. While Large language models (LLMs) provide few-shot generalization, they remain text-bound and blind to geography. To bridge this gap, we introduce a Geospatial Awareness Layer (GAL) that grounds LLM agents in structured earth data. Starting from raw wildfire detections, GAL automatically retrieves and integrates infrastructure, demographic, terrain, and weather information from external geodatabases, assembling them into a concise, unit-annotated perception script. This enriched context enables agents to produce evidence-based resource-allocation recommendations (e.g., personnel assignments, budget allocations), further reinforced by historical analogs and daily change signals for incremental updates. We evaluate the framework in real wildfire scenarios across multiple LLM models, showing that geospatially grounded agents can outperform baselines. The proposed framework can generalize to other hazards such as floods and hurricanes.
title Empowering LLM Agents with Geospatial Awareness: Toward Grounded Reasoning for Wildfire Response
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12061