CaBuAr: California burned areas dataset for delineation [Software and Data Sets]
Daniele Rege Cambrin, Luca Colomba, Paolo Garza
Abstract
Forest wildfires represent one of the catastrophic events that, over the last decades, have caused huge environmental and humanitarian damage. In addition to a significant amount of carbon dioxide emission, they are a source of risk to society in both short-term (e.g., temporary city evacuation due to fire) and long-term (e.g., higher risks of landslides) cases. Consequently, the availability of tools to support local authorities in automatically identifying burned areas plays an important role in the continuous monitoring requirement to alleviate the aftereffects of such catastrophic events. The great availability of satellite acquisitions coupled with computer vision techniques represents an important step in developing such tools.