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In past few decades, there was a tremendous enhancement in natural disaster and their effects on economy and population. An adverse events like floods, wildfires, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., are regarded as a natural disaster once it strikes the vulnerable population areas. An early tracking of susceptibility areas and immediate tracking of affected areas might help in facilitating rescue and early warnings to the public. To achieve autonomous natural disaster prediction, this paper makes use of current developments in remote sensing, which speed up the availability of aerial/satellite data and are reinforced by progress in the computing sector. The aerial/satellite imageries are employed for acquiring the data from areas of Queensland-Australia that are more prone to natural disaster in an eagle-eye perspective. Since there were several techniques employed so far for the automatic prediction of natural disaster susceptibilities, there were some limitations like reduced rate of accuracy and so on. So as to overcome these limitations, deep learning based automated process is employed for predicting the natural disaster areas and probability of event occurrences. The main intention of the work is to detect the natural disaster occurrence from the sensed data which aids in providing warning to public and to safeguard them by taking necessary actions. Initially, remote sensing data is pre-processed and the features are extracted using Adaptive linear Internal embedding algorithm-based feature extraction (ALIE-FE). The extracted features are selected using Recursive Wrapper-based feature subset selection. To estimate best fitness function and to enhance the prediction accuracy, the optimization process is carried using Bio-Inspired Squirrel Search Optimization algorithm (BI-SSOA). Finally, the classification is carried by means of Deep learning based Multi-layer Alex Net classifier (DBMLA) approach. The simulation is carried and the outcomes attained are estimated for predicting flood susceptibility and wildfire susceptibility. The proposed BISSOA-DBMLA offers sensitivity of 98%, specificity of 99%, and TSS of 97%. The proposed system offers 98.99% classification accuracy. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, TSS, and area under the curve (AUC) are used to evaluate the efficacy of the suggested system in light of the achieved results from other approaches. To demonstrate the efficacy of the suggested mechanism, the achieved results are compared with those of current approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A novel probabilistic PV power forecasting method is proposed based on QCNN. • Two-stage training strategy (TSTS) is proposed to solve the training problem of QCNN. • QCNN possesses an evidently superior effect than four state-of-the-art methods. • TSTS provides references for the training of other quantile deep learning models. Probabilistic forecasting is significant in coping with the strong uncertainty of photovoltaic (PV) power, which provides the occurrence scope and corresponding probability information of PV power for the decision of power systems. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one of the most advanced and widely used deep-learning methods, are regarded as a promising method for predicting PV power. This paper proposes a daily-ahead probabilistic PV power forecasting method based on an improved quantile CNN (QCNN). First, the QCNN constructs a feature extraction network based on CNNs to mine the deep features of the PV power influence factors. Thereafter, quantile regression (QR) is employed to generate the PV power probability distribution based on the extracted features. However, QR produces non-differentiable loss functions that significantly hinder the training of QCNNs. To address this problem, a two-stage training strategy is proposed in which a CNN is trained using a deterministic forecasting method, and QR is trained using a linear-programming method. This strategy ensures that the training of QCNNs can avoid the effects of the non-differentiable loss functions such that the QCNN can play a complete role in the prediction. The case of a PV plant in Australia demonstrates that QCNNs produce a considerably superior effect when compared to the quantile extreme learning machine, quantile echo state network, direct QR, and radial basis function neural network. The proposed method can be beneficial in terms of decision-making in power systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]