Automated detection of burned areas in Costa Rica: a first approach

 

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Auteurs: Rodríguez-Delgado, Brayan, Vargas-Sanabria, Daniela, Aguilar-Arias, Heileen, Umaña-Ortiz, José Andrés, Segura-Castillo, Andrés
Formaat: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publicatiedatum:2026
Omschrijving:In Costa Rica despite diverse studies carried out by wildfires, collection data still is arduous fieldwork due to geographical conditions, there are zones where accessibility conditions prevent data collections. Satellite images are tools useful to study different zones to detect burned areas or their scars, but processing data by researchers requires too much time due to the number of files that need to be analyzed. We propose in this paper a framework based on machine learning and spectral index analysis to help burned area detection with efficient computational performance. Selecting as our study area in the Guanacaste Conservation Area, we obtained data from Sentinel-2 mission; we could detect the most probable zones affected by wildfire. Although this is a first step in the prevention of wildfire in protected zones, our results demonstrate the potential to develop a future robust detecting system.
Land:Portal de Revistas TEC
Instelling:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Taal:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/8504
Online toegang:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/tec_marcha/article/view/8504
Keyword:áreas quemadas
detección
clasificación
aprendizaje automático
aplicaciones prácticas de IA
rendimiento computacional
Burned areas
detection
classification
machine learning
practical applications of AI
computational performance