Abstract
At local or regional scales, where Landsat has been extensively applied to monitor burned areas, semi- or fully-automated methods are not very common. Koutsias et al. (2013) developed and improved (2021) a semi-automatic method to map burned areas consisted of a set of rules that are valid especially when the post-fire image has been captured shortly after the fire. However, the rule-based approach is not free of errors that eventually create limitations to adopt this method for reconstructing the fire history in a fully automated mode. In this work, we improved the method by incorporating vegetation indices. The vegetation indices evaluated were the: (i) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), (ii) Ratio Vegetation Index (RVI), (iii) Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR), (iv) Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and (v) Shortwave Infrared Water Stress Index (SIWSI).
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