Post Contaminación

Mitigate the erosion caused by wildfires

savE THE planet

Abilia Du Bombin, Jhuseidi Diaz and Marina Franquet

About our project

Info

• Climate change mitigation

• Track evolution of erosion in zones affected by wildfires

• Data used from Copernicus Sentinel-2

• Analysed with software QGIS

September 2018 (before wildfire occured)

September 2019(after wildfire occured)

What can be done to mitigate the erosion?

• The technique we found more effective is mulching, that consists in covering the soil with organic materials or inorganic materials to protect and improve its quality.

• The main goal of mulching is to create a barrier between the soil and the environment.

• We will reinforce the area by applying mulching with plant remains from the region itself.

- Using tools as Forest Watch, which extracts data from images captured by Sentinel-2, we found where wildfires took place.- Later on, with QGIS we analysed the data determining the difference of vegetation with the NDVI.

September 2018 (before wildfire occured)

September 2019 (after wildfire occured)

Difference of vegetation index using QGIS