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This paper presents an automatic semisupervised machine learning approach for discriminating between wildfire fuel types and a procedure for fuel mapping using hyperspectral imagery (HSI) from PRISMA, a recently launched satellite of the Italian Space Agency. The approach includes sample generation and pseudolabelling using a single spectral signature as input data for each class, unmixing mixed pixels by a fully constrained linear mixing model, and differentiating sparse and mountainous vegetation from typical vegetation using biomass and DEM maps, respectively. Then the procedure of conversion from a classified map to a fuel map according to the JRC Anderson Codes is presented. PRISMA images of the southern part of Sardinia, an island off Italy, were considered to implement this procedure. As a result, the classified map obtained an overall accuracy of 87% upon validation. Furthermore, the stability of the proposed approach was tested by repeating the procedure on another HSI acquired for part of Bulgaria and we obtained an overall stability of around 84%. In terms of repeatability and reproducibility analysis, a degree of confidence greater than 95% was obtained. This study suggests that PRISMA imagery has good potential for wildfire fuel mapping, and the proposed semisupervised learning approach can generate samples for training the machine learning model when there is no single go-to dataset available, whereas this procedure can be implemented to develop a wildfire fuel map for any part of Europe using LUCAS land cover points as input.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14051264","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,6]],"date-time":"2022-03-06T20:40:02Z","timestamp":1646599202000},"page":"1264","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["An Automatic Procedure for Forest Fire Fuel Mapping Using Hyperspectral (PRISMA) Imagery: A Semi-Supervised Classification Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8581-3374","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Riyaaz Uddien","family":"Shaik","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering, University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d, 00185 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6108-9764","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giovanni","family":"Laneve","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Aerospace Engineering, University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d, 00138 Rome, Italy"}]},{"given":"Lorenzo","family":"Fusilli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering, University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d, 00185 Rome, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"387","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tree.2005.04.025","article-title":"Fire as a global \u2018herbivore\u2019: The ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems","volume":"20","author":"Bond","year":"2005","journal-title":"Trends Ecol. 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