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

Joint Authors

Mustafa, Yasin Taha
Habib, Hidaf Nasr al-Din

Source

مجلة جامعة دهوك

Publisher

University of Duhok

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

8

Main Subjects

Agriculture

English Abstract

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.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-797938

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