Determining Areas Burned in Forest Fires from Satellite Images: 2019 August Gallipoli Forest Fire (Çanakkale / Turkey)

<p style="text-align: justify; ">In this study, the areas affected by the forest fire that occurred in Çanakkale province, Gelibolu peninsula(between Behramlı and Alçıtepe) in August 2019 were tried to be determined by visual interpretation fromsatellite images and compared with the results obtained by different methods in the literature. At first, all areaboundaries where the fire was effective were determined and calculated as 269 ha. Within the area affected bythe fire, wooded areas and agricultural lands that were not affected by the fire were excluded from the scopeand were considered as "non-destructed areas". A total of 16 areas that were not affected by the fire weredetermined within this area, and the total area of these areas was calculated as approximately 46 ha. Thus, thearea of the completely destroyed region was found to be approximately 223 ha (269 ha - 46 ha). In addition, asa result of various band combinations applied to the LANDSAT8 OLI image covering the study area, it was seenthat the band combination that best reflects these burning areas was obtained with the RGB: 762 combination.These results obtained through visual interpretation in this study; It is largely compatible with the results statedboth in the records and in the literature with different index area calculations at different spatial resolutions.&nbsp;<br>