Investigation of Fire in Rangelands and Forests of Mazandaran Using Landsat Images

Forest and rangeland fires are a crisis and a challenge in the world. Mapping fire areas and predicting them for the future is very important in natural resource planning and management. Satellite imagery plays an important role in monitoring and studying forest and rangeland fires. In this paper, the study of forest and rangeland fires in Mazandaran by NBR method was performed along with statistical data of temperature, wind and relative humidity using Landsat images. Then, NDVI index was used to study vegetation condition. The results showed that there is coordination between the results of NBR method, statistical data and NDVI. The fire more than 500 hectares of vegetation belongs to Savadkuh, Behshahr, Noor and Tonekabon areas. In order to expedite future decisions, the fire condition of forests and rangelands of Mazandaran for the next 10 years was predicted and mapped. The results of this study can be useful alongside fieldwork.