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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2015, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 7-16

Optimization of burn mapping interactive procedures in remote fire monitoring information systems

A.V. Kashnitskiy 1 , E.A. Loupian 1 , S.A. Bartalev 1 , S.S. Bartalev 1 , I.V. Balashov 1 , V.Yu. Efremov 1 , F.V. Stytsenko 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
One of the most important parts of different remote fire monitoring information systems is burnt area mapping. At present, different reliable and fully automatic methods for burnt area mapping exist using moderate resolution satellite data. In recent years, also high resolution satellite data have come into
use for large-scale burnt area mapping. Since no reliable and fully automatic approaches exist for large-scale burnt area mapping using high resolution satellite data, different interactive approaches are used in remote fire monitoring systems. For a large-scale system, there is a need to develop maximally automated and formalized mapping procedures. In this work we propose a new technique of burnt area mapping using unsupervised classification approach. The main idea is to substitute manual mapping with unsupervised classification result analysis, namely selection of burnt-related classes. Virtually, this procedure substitutes setting a threshold on a continuous function with choosing a decision between a limited number of options. This ensures task formalization, making the result less dependent on operator qualification and speeding up interactive burnt area mapping. We thus achieve optimization of interactive burnt area mapping procedures in remote fire monitoring information systems.
Keywords: remote fire monitoring, remote sensing, information systems, distributed data processing, satellite data processing, web-interface, extremely large data archive, satellite data
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