Pukyong National University Student Wins Top Prize in Digital Forest Utilization Case and Idea Contest

Seoyoungmin Master's Student

On the 5th, Pukyong National University announced that Seo Young-min, a master's student majoring in Spatial Information Systems Engineering (advisor: Professor Lee Yang-won), won the Grand Prize at the 23rd Digital Forestry Utilization Cases and Ideas Contest.

Seo Young-min, a master's student in the Department of Geographic Information Systems Engineering, who received the Grand Prize at the 23rd Digital Forest Conference.

Seo Young-min received the Grand Prize (Forest Service Commissioner Award) with a prize of 700,000 KRW for his work titled "Classification of Wildfire Damage Intensity and Automation of Damage Recovery System Using Agricultural and Forestry Satellites and Deep Learning Techniques" at the contest recently held at the Venice Hotel in Yeosu, hosted by the Korea Forest Service.

In this work, he was recognized for developing and presenting a system that integrates deep learning techniques with the agricultural and forestry satellite scheduled to be launched in 2025, enabling classification of wildfire damage intensity and automated recovery.

This project was evaluated as providing a solution to the administrative and manpower demands required for estimating wildfire damage areas by performing image analysis on high-resolution satellite images based on deep learning, offering automated wildfire intensity classification mapping. It also proposed solutions to spatial and temporal limitations and budget issues caused by on-site investigations.

He stated that through damage grade classification, priority response areas can be identified, and the efficiency of recovery operations can be improved, thereby minimizing wildfire damage.

The contest saw participation from students, companies, and the general public nationwide, with a total of 16 works selected as awardees, presenting highly practical ideas covering all aspects of forestry.

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