Evolutionary computation and post wildfire land-cover mapping with multispectral imagery

Steven P. Brumby; Steven Koch; Leslie A. Hansen

doi:10.1117/12.453671

23 January 2002 Evolutionary computation and post-wildfire land-cover mapping with multispectral imagery

Steven P. Brumby, Steven Koch, Leslie A. Hansen

Proceedings Volume 4545, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453671
Event: International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2001, Toulouse, France

Abstract

The Cerro Grande/Los Alamos wildfire devastated approximately 43,000 acres (17,500 ha) of forested land, and destroyed over 200 structures in the town of Los Alamos. The need to monitor the continuing impact of the fire on the local environment has led to the application of a number of advanced remote sensing technologies. During and after the fire, remote-sensing data was acquired from a variety of aircraft- and satellite-based sensors, including Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+). We now report on the application of a machine learning technique to the automated classification of land cover using multispectral imagery. We apply a hybrid genetic programming/supervised classification technique to evolve automatic feature extraction algorithms. We use a software package we have developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, called GENIE, to carry out this evolution. We use multispectral imagery from the Landsat 7 ETM+ instrument from before and after the wildfire. Using an existing land cover classification based on a Landsat 5 TM scene for our training data, we evolve algorithms that distinguish a range of land cover categories, along with clouds and cloud shadows. The details of our evolved classification are compared to the manually produced land-cover classification.

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Steven P. Brumby, Steven Koch, and Leslie A. Hansen "Evolutionary computation and post-wildfire land-cover mapping with multispectral imagery", Proc. SPIE 4545, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology, (23 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453671

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