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Nowadays, image processing outputs a lot of required information and measures for the implementation of advanced forest fire-fighting strategies. This work addresses a new color image segmentation method based on principal component analysis (PCA) and Gabor filter responses. Our method introduces a new superpixels extraction strategy that takes full account of two objectives: regional consistency and robustness to added noises. The novel approach is tested on various color images. Extensive experiments show that our method obviously outperforms existing segmentation variants on real and synthetic images of fire forest scenes, and also achieves outstanding performance on other popular benchmarked images (e.g., BSDS, MRSC). 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