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IV - BURNED LAND MAPPING, FIRE SEVERITY DETERMINATION, AND VEGETATION RECOVERY ASSESSMENT
Kappa coefficient. The highest Kappa coefficient was for a NBR threshold
value of 0.06.
Burn area map as resulted from this methodology was validated using two
burn area products: L3JRC and MCD45A1. The overall accuracy of our product
was 92.52 and 97.14%, respectively. Burned area within the test region
was of 2065km 2 (our estimation), 2182km 2 (L3JRC) and 1568km 2
(MCD45A1). Figure 2 shows an example.
Figure 2 - Left - Our estimation delineated in red; center: L3JRC (black); right: MCD45A1
(black).
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