2022/11/26 by Beichen Zhang, Zhang, Beichen, Huiqi Wang +11
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Fire Detection and Safety Systems #Fire effects on ecosystems #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Remote-Sensing Image Classification
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.14654
openalex publication_date 2022/11/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The accurate characterization of the severity of the wildfire event strongly contributes to the characterization of the fuel conditions in fire-prone areas, and provides valuable information for disaster response. The aim of this study is to develop an autonomous system built on top of high-resolution multispectral satellite imagery, with an advanced deep learning method for detecting burned area change. This work proposes an initial exploration of using an unsupervised model for feature extraction in wildfire scenarios. It is based on the contrastive learning technique SimCLR, which is trained to minimize the cosine distance between augmentations of images. The distance between encoded images can also be used for change detection. We propose changes to this method that allows it to be used for unsupervised burned area detection and following downstream tasks. We show that our proposed method outperforms the tested baseline approaches.