Student Research Abstract: Detection of War-Caused Agricultural Field Damages Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Data with Machine Learning and Anomaly Detection

This research aims to detect war-caused damages on agricultural fields in Ukraine using Sentinel-2 satellite data. To achieve this, a Random Forest-based classification and an anomaly detection method deployed in the GEE cloud environment are applied. Two spectral bands - blue (B2) and green (B3) and two vegetation indices - NDVI and GCI - were used as input parameters. According to the results, the f1-score of classification reach 0.9. Using the developed methodology, more than 1.5 millions ha of fields were identified as damaged during the period of 2022--2023.