Title :
Rapid Damage Assessment of Buildings with VHR Optical Airborne Images in Yushu Earthquake
Author :
Lu, Linlin ; Guo, Huadong ; Corbane, Christina ; Pesaresi, Martino ; Ehrlich, Daniele
Author_Institution :
Center for Earth Obs. & Digital Earth, Beijing, China
Abstract :
On April 14, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the Yushu prefecture in the Qinghai province of China. A strategy for rapid building damage assessment using mono-temporal post-earthquake very high resolution imagery is presented. Integrating automatic and manual interpretation, the strategy ensures the reliability, timeliness and interpretability of damage assessment products. This product played an important role in post-disaster response and relief activities.
Keywords :
disasters; earthquakes; geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; geotechnical engineering; reliability; remote sensing; AD 2010 04 14; China; Qinghai province; VHR optical airborne images; Yushu Earthquake; automatic interpretation analysis; building damage assessment; damage assessment product interpretability; damage assessment product reliability; damage assessment product timeliness; manual interpretation analysis; monotemporal post-earthquake very high resolution image; post-disaster response; remote sensing technology; Buildings; Earth; Earthquakes; Image resolution; Manuals; Remote sensing; Satellites;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2012 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0872-4
DOI :
10.1109/RSETE.2012.6260672
