Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches
The abiotic and biotic conditions in forest ecosystems can be significantly influenced by forest fires. However, difficulties in policy decisions for restoration inevitably occur in the absence of information on the damaged forests, such as location, area, and burn severity. In this study, eight spe...
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| description | The abiotic and biotic conditions in forest ecosystems can be significantly influenced by forest fires. However, difficulties in policy decisions for restoration inevitably occur in the absence of information on the damaged forests, such as location, area, and burn severity. In this study, eight spectral indices calculated from Sentinel 2 MSI imagery and machine learning algorithms (Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM)) were used for mapping burned areas and severity. Two study sites with similar meteorological environment (dry season) and species (coniferous vegetation) were tested, and dataset (EMSR448) from Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) was used as the reference truth. RF showed better performance for classifying pixels from classes with similar properties than SVM. Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI) showed high importance in assessing fire severity suggesting that it may be effective for identifying senescent plants. The results also confirmed that the CEMS dataset has transferability as a reference truth for fire damage classification in other regions. Implementation of this method enables fast and accurate mapping of the area and severity of destructive damage by forest fires, and also has applicability for other disasters. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0e0f45fb802742d8b6f9f520a9330bc92023-09-21T12:43:09ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGIScience & Remote Sensing1548-16031943-72262023-12-0160110.1080/15481603.2023.21921572192157Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approachesKyungil Lee0Byeongcheol Kim1Seonyoung Park2Seoul National University of Science and TechnologySeoul National University of Science and TechnologySeoul National University of Science and TechnologyThe abiotic and biotic conditions in forest ecosystems can be significantly influenced by forest fires. However, difficulties in policy decisions for restoration inevitably occur in the absence of information on the damaged forests, such as location, area, and burn severity. In this study, eight spectral indices calculated from Sentinel 2 MSI imagery and machine learning algorithms (Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM)) were used for mapping burned areas and severity. Two study sites with similar meteorological environment (dry season) and species (coniferous vegetation) were tested, and dataset (EMSR448) from Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) was used as the reference truth. RF showed better performance for classifying pixels from classes with similar properties than SVM. Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI) showed high importance in assessing fire severity suggesting that it may be effective for identifying senescent plants. The results also confirmed that the CEMS dataset has transferability as a reference truth for fire damage classification in other regions. Implementation of this method enables fast and accurate mapping of the area and severity of destructive damage by forest fires, and also has applicability for other disasters.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2023.2192157forest firesburn severitysentinel-2machine learningcopernicus ems data |
| spellingShingle | Kyungil Lee Byeongcheol Kim Seonyoung Park Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches GIScience & Remote Sensing forest fires burn severity sentinel-2 machine learning copernicus ems data |
| title | Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches |
| title_full | Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches |
| title_short | Evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of Copernicus EMS data using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning approaches |
| title_sort | evaluating the potential of burn severity mapping and transferability of copernicus ems data using sentinel 2 imagery and machine learning approaches |
| topic | forest fires burn severity sentinel-2 machine learning copernicus ems data |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2023.2192157 |
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