Automatic detection of vegetation cover changes in urban-rural interface areas

Barbosa, Bruno; Rocha, Jorge; Costa, Hugo; Caetano, Mário

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The present work started from the need to streamline the process of monitoring changes in vegetation in the in urban-rural interface fuel management bands, defined by Portuguese legislation as areas where the existing biomass must be totally or partially removed. The model developed uses a time series of Sentinel 2 satellite images to search for changes in the vegetation cover in a 100 meters buffer around built-up areas. The use of satellite data allows analysing large areas and speeds up the task of identifying the places where fuel management took place and the places where there is a need to carry out such management. The objective of the proposed method is to give a script in Python language that can verify the cleanliness of vegetation in the fuel management ranges through multi-temporal analysis of satellite images.

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Barbosa, B., Rocha, J., Costa, H., & Caetano, M. (2022). Automatic detection of vegetation cover changes in urban-rural interface areas. MethodsX, 9, 1-7. [101643]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101643 ---------This work was financed by national funds through FCT—Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the framework of the Project “FORESTER - Data fusion of sensor networks and fire spread modelling for decision support in forest fire suppression” [PCIF / SSI / 0102 / 2017] and is relative to a scientific Research Fellowship BI_27_20.