dNBR Burn Severity Wildfire Portugal

Aisling Brady
Aisling Brady

July 17, 2026

dNBR Burn Severity Wildfire Portugal

For this project I got Sentinel 2 images from before and after a wildfire disaster in Portugal around the Pedrógão Grande area in central portugal. I first retrieved the Normalized Burn Ratio for the pre and post fire images, and then used those to calculate the dNBR. Following the initial imagery processing I used formula: (NIR-SWIR)/(NIR+SWIR)

The burn severity map results show how some of the small populated towns were completely surrounded by some of the most severe fire, explaining why there so many deaths.


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Burn SeverityWildfire Analysis

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