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This paper proposes a CNN-based forest smoke detection model featuring novel backbone architecture that can increase detection accuracy and reduce computational load. Since the proposed backbone detects the plume of smoke through different views using kernels of varying sizes, it can better detect smoke plumes of different sizes. By decomposing the traditional square kernel convolution into a depth-wise convolution of the coordinate kernel, it can not only better extract the features of the smoke plume spreading along the vertical dimension but also reduce the computational load. An attention mechanism was applied to allow the model to focus on important information while suppressing less relevant information. 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