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Zero-shot burned area mapping with the Segment Anything Model (SAM): a label-free framework for post-fire environmental assessment

Jul 2026 · Environmental Monitoring & Assessment · Vol 198 · 0 citations · 41 references
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This study proposes a zero-shot burned area mapping approach based on the Segment Anything Model (SAM) using Sentinel-2 data and demonstrates that SAM can serve as a powerful, scalable, and low-cost framework for zero-shot environmental monitoring and automatic burned area detection, particularly in data-scarce or time-critical post-fire assessment scenarios.

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