Automatic deforestation detection through satellite imagery?
Watching forest: can we help?
The goal of this project was to study how satellite imagery can meet the needs of forest monitoring for environmental issues. I worked with 5 other classmates on automatic detection of deforestation in Amazonia. We studied satellite imagery databases of NASA and ESA in infrared and visible lights.
After analyzing the available data sources and their advantages and disadvantages, the objective was to develop a model in Python to update a deforestation map with image analysis approaches. We developed solutions in Python using clustering algorithms like k-means to detect deforestation.
