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Object-Based Burned Area Mapping with Extreme Gradient Boosting Using Sentinel-2 Imagery
Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
1 Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
2 Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Sentinel-2 satellites are providing an unparalleled wealth of high-resolution remotely sensed information with a short revisit cycle, which is ideal for mapping burned areas both accurately and timely. This paper proposes an automated methodology for mapping burn scars using pairs of Sentinel-2 imagery, exploiting the state-of-the-art eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) machine learning framework. A large database of 64 reference wildfire perimeters in Greece from 2016 to 2019 is used to train the classifier. An empirical methodology for appropriately sampling the training patterns from this database is formulated, which guarantees the effectiveness of the approach and its computational efficiency. A difference (pre-fire minus post-fire) spectral index is used for this purpose, upon which we appropriately identify the clear and fuzzy value ranges. To reduce the data volume, a super-pixel segmentation of the images is also employed, implemented via the QuickShift algorithm. The cross-validation results showcase the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, with the average commission and omission errors being 9% and 2%, respectively, and the average Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) equal to 0.93.
KeywordsOperational Burned Area MappingSentinel-2Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB)QuickShift SegmentationMachine Learning
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