Swimming Pool Identification from Digital Sensor Imagery Using SVM

bushfires. In January 2003 it witnessed a significant natural disaster when Canberra was struck by firestorms. The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria resulted in 75 deaths twenty years earlier. Events like these have made environmental and emergency management research a focus in Australia. In this paper, we introduce a Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique to classify small area water bodies, swimming pools in particular. These features provide a valuable source of water for Emergency Services and play a crucial role in fighting bushfires in urban areas of Australia.