Abstract
Amazon rainforest has been subject to intensive deforestation in the
last decades, for example, illegal logging and creating pasture areas. A
characteristic pattern of deforestation seen from space is the
“fishbone” shape, which usually appears near roads, rivers and its
tributaries. Indeed, others, more subtle, still need to be identified.
These fishbone images are spatiotemporal patterns that need to be more
explored with feature extraction methods. In computer vision,
morphological features such as flatness, compactness, circularity,
perimeter, area, and centroid are well-known to characterize the
appearance of an object. In this work, we aim to characterize the shapes
of deforestation in its early stages and its evolution in time,
particularly in the Amazon rainforest. Thus, we propose to analyze
satellite images of these regions to crop and segment by using shape
features.