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Burn Scar Detection

Real-time wildfire mapping from satellite data

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An Earth observation tool that turns Sentinel-2 and Landsat imagery into instant burn scar maps. Pick a location and date, and it pulls the closest satellite pass, runs Normalized Burn Ratio analysis, and classifies burned area — with before/after swipe comparison and downloadable GeoTIFFs for GIS work. Layer in live NASA FIRMS fire hotspots (VIIRS/MODIS) to track active fires alongside historical damage assessment.

PH · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: environmental and geospatial analytics software · 124 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Energy & climate
  • Analytics & BI
  • B2B
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Analytics
  • Space
  • Tech

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Could you build this?

Yes Public satellite imagery is freely accessible via open STAC APIs, and calculating the Normalized Burn Ratio is a standard raster calculation easily implemented with Python geospatial libraries.

Competitors

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Attention rank: #86 of 109 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.

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