Title
Buildings damage due to the 2013 Haiyan Typhoon inferred from SAR intensity images
Date Issued
23 October 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Tohoku University
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In this study, a practical methodology is presented to classify and map damaged buildings, following the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan, using high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images and post-event building damage data from Tacloban city, The Philippines. Considering the relationship of the radar layover extension between damaged and non-damaged structures, the method focuses on the changes in the building radar signature between pre- and post-event SAR scenes. In addition, the method introduces a new change factor for change detection analysis. The method was developed and tested using a 1.0 m resolution COSMO-SkyMed SAR images taken over Tacloban city, the Philippines. The method proves, with 76% accuracy in this case, to be suitable for estimating destroyed buildings.
Start page
667
End page
671
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias ambientales
Ingeniería de la construcción
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84957706648
ISBN of the container
978-146737296-1
Conference
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, APSAR 2015
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