Los Angeles Wildfire Damage Assessment using Satellite Images

🚀 Ready to go beyond tutorials and learn QGIS properly? 📘 Explore the QGIS Masterclass with structured lessons and practical workflows: 👉 https://www.geodeltalabs.com/qgis-mas... California is experiencing one of the worst wildfire events in its history. In this video, I demonstrate how to use freely available satellite imagery data to analyze the damage and destruction caused by these wildfires in Los Angeles, California. I have used QGIS as the GIS software tool to perform this analysis. I make use of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery obtained before and after the Los Angeles fire events occurred to perform a direct visual comparison to identify burned and affected areas with visual inspection of natural color images. Following that, I use false color composites, making use of the Near-Infrared Band (NIR) of Sentinel data to highlight areas with vegetation, which clearly shows where vegetation has been lost due to these California wildfires. Finally, I make use of Normalized Burn Ration (NBR) index to generate a raster to clearly demarcate areas that are most severely affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. The assessment highlights the extent of the devastation in the Los Angeles region, specifically areas such as Rustic Canyon, Palisades, Big Rock, Tuna Canyon Park, and parts of eastern Malibu that are being most severely affected. Altadena also remains to be one of the most severely affected areas due to these Los Angeles wildfires. California Wildfire | Los Angeles Wildfire | Los Angeles Fire | Los Angeles Wildfires | Wildfires California | Wildfire in California | Palisades Wildfire | Pacific Palisades Wildfire | Wildfire | Los Angeles | California fires | California Fire | Wildfires | Satellite Images #californiawildfires #losangeleswildfires #sentinel