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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): Dale A. Hamilton; Enoch Levandovsky; Nicholas Hamilton
Publication Date: 2021

Wildfires burn 4–10 million acres annually across the United States and wildland fire related damages and suppression costs have exceeded $13 billion for a single year. High-intensity wildfires contribute to post-fire erosion, degraded wildlife habitat, and loss of timber resources. Accurate and temporally adequate assessment of the effects of wildland fire on the environment is critical to improving the of wildland fire as a tool for restoring ecosystem resilience. Sensor miniaturization and small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) provide affordable, on-demand monitoring of wildland fire effects at a much finer spatial resolution than is possible with satellite imagery. The use of sUAS would allow researchers to obtain data with more detail at a much lower initial cost. Unfortunately, current regulatory and technical constraints prohibit the acquisition of imagery using sUAS for the entire extent of large fires. This research examined the use of sUAS imagery to train and validate burn severity and extent mapping of large wildland fires from various satellite images. Despite the lower resolution of the satellite image, the research utilized the advantages of satellite imagery such as global coverage, low cost, temporal stability, and spectral extent while leveraging the higher resolution of hyperspatial sUAS imagery for training and validating the mapping analytics.

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Citation: Hamilton, Dale; Levandovsky, Enoch; Hamilton, Nicholas. 2020. Mapping burn extent of large wildland fires from satellite imagery using machine learning trained from localized hyperspatial imagery. Remote Sensing 12(24):4097.

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Keywords:
  • burn severity
  • fire extent
  • fire severity
  • fuzzy logic
  • Landsat
  • remote sensing
  • support vector machine
  • UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles
  • wildfire
  • wildland fire
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FRAMES Record Number: 64051