Remote Sensing Analysis of La Palma's wildfire occurred in 2016

1. R_PROJECT
La Palma Island
Wildfire 2016

2. State of the art
◦ AREA OF STUDY  La Palma, Canary Island

3. State of the art
◦ PERIOD OF STUDY Summer 2016
◦ CASE of STUDY  Wildfire which burnt over 4,400 hectares in the
southern part of the Island (Parque Natural Cumbre Vieja), due to a
german guy who had started the fire accidentally by burning some of
his soiled toilet paper.
3 August 2016 9 August 2016
Fires burn through the night on La
Palma island.
Photograph: Miguel Calero/EPA
FIRMS (NASA)
Fire Information for Resource
Management System

4. Governo delle Isole Canarie Pinus canariensis Albero di Pino
– alberi (CLEANPNG)
o Pinus canariensis forest
o Adapted to fire cycle
1. Thikness of the bark
2. Serotinous cones
3. Resprouting capacity (from buds in roots, major branches or trun
4. Pine needles length
o Threat  increasing T  Higer risk of fire

5. Satellite images from Landsat 8
 GeoTIFF download of
- July 2016
- August 2016
- September 2016
- August 2015

6. FIRST
PASSAGES

7. Loading of all the
Bands in a stack
RasterStack
lapalma08
lapalma09
lapalma07

8. Creating and using of
a shape file

9. Human eyes vision
#1 lapalma07/08/09_B10 : TIRS (Thermal Indrared)
#2 lapalma07/08/09 _B2 : BLUE
#3 l lapalma07/08/09 _B3 : GREEN
#4 lapalma07/08/09 _B4 : RED
#5 lapalma07/08/09 _B5 : NIR
#6 lapalma07/08/09 _B6 : SWIR

10. NDVI analysis
#1 lapalma07/08/09_B10 : TIRS (Thermal Indrared)
#2 lapalma07/08/09 _B2 : BLUE
#3 l lapalma07/08/09 _B3 : GREEN
#4 lapalma07/08/09 _B4 : RED
#5 lapalma07/08/09 _B5 : NIR
#6 lapalma07/08/09 _B6 : SWIR

11. Difference in NDVI
analysis
#1 lapalma07/08/09_B10 : TIRS (Thermal Indrared)
#2 lapalma07/08/09 _B2 : BLUE
#3 l lapalma07/08/09 _B3 : GREEN
#4 lapalma07/08/09 _B4 : RED
#5 lapalma07/08/09 _B5 : NIR
#6 lapalma07/08/09 _B6 : SWIR

12. Highlighting soil T
during fire
#1 lapalma07/08/09_B10 : TIRS (Thermal Indrared)
#2 lapalma07/08/09 _B2 : BLUE
#3 l lapalma07/08/09 _B3 : GREEN
#4 lapalma07/08/09 _B4 : RED
#5 lapalma07/08/09 _B5 : NIR
#6 lapalma07/08/09 _B6 : SWIR

13. Highlighting the
burnt area
#1 lapalma07/08/09_B10 : TIRS (Thermal Indrared)
#2 lapalma07/08/09 _B2 : BLUE
#3 l lapalma07/08/09 _B3 : GREEN
#4 lapalma07/08/09 _B4 : RED
#5 lapalma07/08/09 _B5 : NIR
#6 lapalma07/08/09 _B6 : SWIR

14. La Palma 2015
no fire occurred

15. La Palma 2015
no fire occurred
# B2 BLUE :LC8208040//_Enmask2.1
# B3 GREEN : LC8208040//_Enmask2.2
# B4 RED : LC8208040//_Enmask2.3
# B5 NIR : LC8208040//_Enmask2.4
# B6 SWIR : LC8208040//_Enmask2.5
# B7 SWIR2 :LC8208040//_Enmask2.6
# B10 TIRS : LC8208040//_Enmask2.7

16. Comparison between
2015 and 2016
# B2 BLUE :LC8208040//_Enmask2.1
# B3 GREEN : LC8208040//_Enmask2.2
# B4 RED : LC8208040//_Enmask2.3
# B5 NIR : LC8208040//_Enmask2.4
# B6 SWIR : LC8208040//_Enmask2.5
# B7 SWIR2 :LC8208040//_Enmask2.6
# B10 TIRS : LC8208040//_Enmask2.7

17. THE END Virginia Micci