The prompt detection, mapping and assessment of urban damages due to earthquakes is a key point, particularly in remote areas or where the infrastructures are not well developed to ensure the necessary communication exchanges or where their operability has strongly decreased as a consequence of the event. The combination of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and optical images is a promising and suitable approach. We propose two test cases, the 1999 Izmit (Turkey) and the 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquakes where we investigate the capability to detect urban changes and classify them. Moreover, a comparison with ground based data is also shown.
Comparing and combining the capability of detecting earthquake damages in urban areas using SAR and optical data / Bignami, Christian; Marco, Chini; Pierdicca, Nazzareno; Salvatore, Stramondo. - 1:(2004), pp. 55-58. (Intervento presentato al convegno Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. nel 2004) [10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368943].
Comparing and combining the capability of detecting earthquake damages in urban areas using SAR and optical data
BIGNAMI, Christian;PIERDICCA, Nazzareno;
2004
Abstract
The prompt detection, mapping and assessment of urban damages due to earthquakes is a key point, particularly in remote areas or where the infrastructures are not well developed to ensure the necessary communication exchanges or where their operability has strongly decreased as a consequence of the event. The combination of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and optical images is a promising and suitable approach. We propose two test cases, the 1999 Izmit (Turkey) and the 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquakes where we investigate the capability to detect urban changes and classify them. Moreover, a comparison with ground based data is also shown.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
