Landsat LDCM imagery for estimating and mapping burned forest areas caused by jet attacks in Duhok governorate, Kurdistan region-Iraq

المؤلفون المشاركون

Mustafa, Yasin Taha
Habib, Hidaf Nasr al-Din

المصدر

مجلة جامعة دهوك

الناشر

جامعة دهوك

تاريخ النشر

2016-06-30

دولة النشر

العراق

عدد الصفحات

8

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم الزراعية

الملخص الإنجليزي

Estimating fire damage in the forest areas is an important task and a main target for the forestry directorate.

This paper presents an approach for estimating burned forest areas in Duhok Governorate that caused by Turkish jet attacks on July 2015.

The presented approach is based on using Landsat Data Continuity Mission LDCM (Landsat-8) satellite images.

The spectral bands of Landsat-8 imagery were analyzed and the most sensitive bands to the burned areas were identified.

Moreover, spectral indices: Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Normalized Burned Ratio (NBR) were used to identify and determine the burned areas.

As a result, a map of burned areas was created with 8981 hectares of the total areas.

This approach can be applied for the whole Kurdistan region over multi-temporal interval to estimate burned areas that happened either by Turkish jet attack or by other sources.

نوع البيانات

أوراق مؤتمرات

رقم السجل

BIM-797938

• APA
• MLA
• AMA