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

fYear

2012

fDate

1-3 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2012 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0872-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSETE.2012.6260672

Filename

6260672