Fire perimeter estimation: Atlas Fire 2017
How much land was burned in the 2017 Atlas Fire? This was one of the fourteen large wildfires in Northern California in October 2017. For this project, I developed a method to determine the fire perimeter and measure the extent of the damage using the tools in ArcMap. To do this, I first classified a Landsat 8 image to find fire damaged areas. Then I created a workflow to turn the classified image into a polygon feature representing the fire perimeter. This workflow was captured as an ArcMap ModelBuilder model that could be used to apply the same process to other wildfire incidents.
This material was created for the Imagery, Automation, and Applications course in the Coursera specialization in GIS.
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