New satellite imagery used from 2016 Canada wildfires.
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About Burn Scar Mapping
Natural wildfires occur all over the world every year, and satellites can be used to automatically detect and monitor them, and the 'burn scars' they leave behind in the landscape. These in turn can be used to better predict future fires and understand how climate change is affecting the pattern of fires. But the resolution of the sensors used for this purpose can sometimes be quite coarse. Other higher resolution satellite data is therefore needed to check the reliability of the areas being detected by re-imaging some of the same areas, and processing this data through special software.
In this project, we focus on areas affected by the huge Canadian wildfires which raged in May and June 2016. We will ask you to identify and mark areas of burn scar imaged by the European Sentinel 2a satellite.
This project is a part of the ESA Crowd4Sat initiative.
