Determining the burned area in forests due to wildfires using Sentinel-2 images with Python in Google Colab
Table of Contents
Introduction
Walbridge Wildfire in California
Method
Setup Google Colab
Load Clear Sentinel-2 Images
Count the Number of Vegetation Pixels
Plot the Timeseries of the Vegetation Area
Visualization of Sentinel-2 images for Wildfires
Conclusion
References
Introduction
Several years ago, when most climate models predicted that more floods, heat waves, and wildfires would happen if we didn’t take the necessary steps, I didn’t expect these unusual catastrophic phenomena to become common events. Among these, wildfires destroy a huge amount of forest area yearly. If you search for a table of major wildfires in different places, you will find alarming statistics showing how much forest area is vanishing from our earth due to wildfires.