Enhancing Forest Fire Classification with Feature Selection and Machine Learning Based on PRISMA Hyperspectral Data
摘要
Forest fires, a significant global threat causing vast annual devastation where each year millions of hectares are destroyed over the world. Burned areas necessitate early and accurate detection for effective response. This study investigates the application of Feature Selection (FS) to address data complexity in forest fire detection utilizing PRISMA hyperspectral imagery (HSI). FS is employed to select the most relevant information, thereby reducing complexity and facilitating the interpretation of results. The effectiveness of Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LGBM), Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms is investigated. Analysis reveals that while the raw 229-band data yielded a reasonable accuracy with RF, applying FS through wrapper methods only select 13 bands and improve the performance of LGBM, XGBoost, and SVM. Notably, the best model achieves a classification precision of 94% and recall of 91%, demonstrating the effectiveness of FS in enhancing forest fire detection and mapping.