In 2022, the Karst region was devastated by the largest wildfire in the history of independent Slovenia. In our study, we used satellite images from the Sentinel-2 satellites and the QGIS programme to determine the affected areas before and after the wildfire based on the changes in the selected indices (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI and Normalised Burn Ratio, NBR). We compared the results obtained with each index. Based on the analysis of the results of the determination of the burnt areas using different spectral indices, we decided to use the NBR index due to the influence of the smoke generated by the wildfire. The wildfire affected the municipalities of Komen, Miren-Kostanjevica and Renče-Vogrsko. A total of 1469 hectares of land were burnt, most of which (79%) were forests. The municipality of MirenKostanjevica and the village of Kostanjevica na Krasu were the worst affected by the wildfire.
|