Cartografía, evaluación y seguimiento de incendios forestales de la zona sur del Ecuador usando datos satelitales

Abstract

In this forest fires in the south of Ecuador were wapped. The methodology is bas on the of seed pixels detection as proposed by Opazo and Chuvieco (2009). Also was created and implemented a computational tool for the automatic delineation of the perimeters of forest fires. In this methodology, it obtain the values of the index Normal Burn Ratio (NBR) of pixel with emphasis on carbon signal issued by a forest fire with the finality of generate an algorithm according to the terms of: minimum pool size and the threshold that detects a pixel burned it for delineate the perimeters of forest fires. The thresholds are to the south of Ecuador and in the analysis are included the thresholds for the type of coverage affected. The results are satisfactory for forest fires major 10 pixels.