
doi: 10.3390/rs17142333
Deforestation and forest fires are escalating global threats that require timely, scalable, and cost-effective monitoring systems. While UAV and ground-based solutions offer fine-grained data, they are often constrained by limited spatial coverage, high operational costs, and logistical challenges. In contrast, satellite imagery provides broad, repeatable, and economically feasible coverage. This study presents a deep learning framework that combines the DeepLabV3+ architecture with an EfficientNet-B08 backbone to address both deforestation and wildfire detection using satellite imagery. The system utilizes advanced multi-scale feature extraction and Group Normalization to enable robust semantic segmentation under challenging atmospheric conditions and complex forest structures. It is evaluated on two benchmark datasets. In the Amazon forest segmentation dataset, the model achieves a validation Intersection over Union (IoU) of 0.9100 and a pixel accuracy of 0.9605, demonstrating strong performance in delineating forest boundaries. In FireDataset_20m, which presents a severe class imbalance between fire and non-fire pixels, the framework achieves 99.95% accuracy, 93.16% precision, and 91.47% recall. A qualitative analysis confirms the model’s ability to accurately localize fire hotspots and deforested areas. These results highlight the model’s dual-purpose utility for high-resolution, multi-temporal environmental monitoring. Its balanced performance across metrics and adaptability to complex terrain conditions make it a promising tool for supporting forest conservation, early fire detection, and evidence-based policy interventions.
wildfire detection, EfficientNet-B08, DeepLabV3+, Science, Q, satellite imagery, semantic segmentation, deforestation detection
wildfire detection, EfficientNet-B08, DeepLabV3+, Science, Q, satellite imagery, semantic segmentation, deforestation detection
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