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Research article
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23 Feb 2023
Research article |
| 23 Feb 2023
| 23 Feb 2023
Earthquake building damage detection based on synthetic-aperture-radar imagery and machine learning
Anirudh Rao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Seismic Risk Team, Global Earthquake Model Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Jungkyo Jung
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Vitor Silva
Seismic Risk Team, Global Earthquake Model Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Giuseppe Molinario
World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA
Sang-Ho Yun
Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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This article presents a framework for semi-automated building damage assessment due to earthquakes from remote-sensing data and other supplementary datasets including high-resolution building inventories, while also leveraging recent advances in machine-learning algorithms. For three out of the four recent earthquakes studied, the machine-learning framework is able to identify over 50 % or nearly half of the damaged buildings successfully.
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