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II - VALIDATION OF RS PRODUCTS FOR FIRE MANAGEMENT
Figure shows the final burn map for the Aspromonte region (28/07/2003)
produced by the region growing algorithm on the basis of seed pixels identified
from the weighted average synthetic score map. It is interesting to
notice that the fires in this area occurred mainly in the west coast in a
agro-environment close to urban settlements. Fires impact on both natural
vegetation (forest and shrub) and agricultural land with almost the same
percentage. The Aspromonte National Park, that is the central part of the
study area, resulted less affected by fires (112.5 ha vs 1960.5 ha) probably
as a consequence of protection activity and remoteness of some areas.
Validation shows very satisfying results: the WA_RG map has OA and Kappa
coefficient respectively of about 99.5% and 0.73 and presents a low commission
error of 2.7%.
Burned area map for Aspromonte. Burn polygons are overlaid to the Corine Land Cover.
4 - Conclusions
The proposed fuzzy aggregation method allowed to exploit the ability of
different SI in detecting burned areas. When the approach is applied to
independent data the proposed method performs well with high accuracy.