An automatic procedure for generating burn severity maps from the satellite images-derived spectral indices
- 18 August 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in International Journal of Digital Earth
- Vol. 14 (11), 1659-1673
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2021.1966525
Abstract
Fire, especially wildfire, which can be considered as one of the main threats to vegetation cover and animals' life, has attracted lots of attention from environmental researchers. To better manage the fire crisis and take the necessary measures to compensate for its damages, it is essential to have detailed information about the burn severity levels. Accordingly, satellite images and their spectral indices have been widely considered in the literature as powerful tools in producing burn severity information. Despite the efficiency of the previously proposed methods, the necessity of ground reference data for their thresholding step faces them with serious challenges. To address this problem, in this study, an automatic procedure based on the change-point analysis is presented for thresholding differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR) and its another version, dNBR2. In this procedure, a mean-shift based change-point analysis is performed on the dNBR and dNBR2 images for classifying them into burn severity levels. Experiments, conducted on some parts of Alaska and California in the United States, illustrated the high efficiency of the proposed method. Moreover, as an applied experiment, the severity of the fires, occurred in 2020 in the Khaeiz protected area in Iran, was estimated and compared with local reports.Keywords
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