OtsuSeg

OtsuSeg is an R package designed for the segmentation of burned areas using smoothed histograms and Otsu’s thresholding method applied to spectral indices such as the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR).

Authors: Hammadi Achour, Olga Viedma, Zina Soltani, Imene Habibi, Wahbi Jaouadi

🔍 Overview

The package provides tools to:

• Apply Otsu’s method to smoothed histograms of Relative Burn Ratio (RBR) and delta Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) images.
• Segment fire scars and assess the accuracy of burn area maps.

📁 Example Data (External) and Usage

Large example datasets are hosted externally and are not bundled in the CRAN/GitHub package to comply with size limits.

These files are hosted at: https://github.com/olgaviedma/OtsuSeg/releases/tag/v0.1.0

library(OtsuSeg)

# Download and extract example data
get_external_data()

# 1.Load a specific file as a raster object
NBRpre <- get_external_data("NBRpre.tif", load = TRUE)
NBRpost <- get_external_data("NBRpost.tif", load = TRUE)
shapefile_reference <- get_external_data("shapefile_reference.shp", load = TRUE)

## 2.Fire scars segments
shapefile_path <- file.path("D:/OLGA/binary_segments.shp")
result <- binarize_raster(NBRpre, NBRpost, shapefile_path = shapefile_path)

print(result$area_hectares)

raster<-result$binary_raster_smoothed
polygons<-st_as_sf(result$binary_shapefile)

plot(raster, main = "Binary Raster (Smoothed)")
plot(polygons, main = "Binary Shapefile")

## 3.Accuracy assessmet
binary_shape <-polygons
reference_shape <- st_as_sf(shapefile_reference)

# Apply Quality Control
result2 <- Quality_control(binary_shape, reference_shape)
print(result2)

📘 Full Documentation

• 👉 Click here to view the full HTML help file
• 📄 Download PDF version of the help

This documentation includes examples, illustrations, and step-by-step workflows to guide the use of the package.

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📦 Installation

To install the latest version of OtsuSeg:

#The CRAN version:
install.packages("OtsuSeg")

# Install the 'remotes' package if not already installed
install.packages("remotes")

# Install 'otsuSeg' from GitHub
remotes::install_github("olgaviedma/OtsuSeg")