Most research on the extraction of earthquake-caused building damage using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images used building damage certification assessments and the EMS-98-based evaluation as ground truth. However, these methods do not accurately...
The collapse of buildings caused by earthquakes can lead to a large loss of life and property. Rapid assessment of building damage with remote sensing image data can support emergency rescues. However, current studies indicate that only a limited sam...
After a major earthquake in a dense urban area, the spatial distribution of heavily damaged buildings is indicative of the impact of the event on public safety. Timely assessment of the locations of severely damaged buildings and their damage morphol...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has been widely used as one of the most effective tools for responding to earthquake disasters. In general, damaged-building detection with SAR data has been conducted based on change detection using temp...
The timely and accurate recognition of damage to buildings after destructive disasters is one of the most important post-event responses. Due to the complex and dangerous situations in affected areas, field surveys of post-disaster conditions are not...
In January 2025, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Dingri County, Shigatse, Tibet, causing severe damage. Rapid and precise extraction of damaged buildings is essential for emergency relief and rebuilding efforts. This study proposes an approach inte...
The collapse of buildings caused by the earthquake seriously threatened human lives and safety. So, the quick detection of collapsed buildings from post-earthquake images is essential for disaster relief and disaster damage assessment. Compared with...
To address the need for detecting damaged regions that develop during the long-term service of urban landscape buildings, existing vision-based detection methods are easily affected by background interference such as shadows, decorative textures, and...
Buildings bear much of the damage from natural disasters, and determining the extent of this damage is of great importance to post-disaster emergency relief. The application of deep learning to satellite remote sensing imagery has become more and mor...
Effective extraction of disaster information of buildings from remote sensing images is of great importance to supporting disaster relief and casualty reduction. In high-resolution remote sensing images, object-oriented methods present problems such...
Quickly and accurately assessing the damage level of buildings is a challenging task for post-disaster emergency response. Most of the existing research mainly adopts semantic segmentation and object detection methods, which have yielded good results...
Since 2016, the frequency and scale of earthquakes have been rapidly increasing in South Korea. In particular, the damage caused by the Gyeongju and Pohang earthquakes has attracted considerable attention since 2017, leading to changes in social inse...
Fully convolutional networks (FCN) such as UNet and DeepLabv3+ are highly competitive when being applied in the detection of earthquake-damaged buildings in very high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images. However, existing methods show some drawbac...
In this research, a semi-automated building damage detection system is addressed under the umbrella of high-spatial resolution remotely sensed images. The aim of this study was to develop a semi-automated fuzzy decision making system using Genetic Al...
Natural disasters and wars wreak havoc not only on individuals and critical infrastructure, but also leave behind ruined residential buildings and housings. The size, type and location of damaged houses are essential data sources for the post-disaste...
To characterize regional building-stock damage arising from the combined effects of spatially varying ground motions, building vulnerability, and exposure, this study develops a building-level, multi-scenario, and multi-record seismic damage assessme...
Flood damage assessment (FDA) is an essential tool for evaluating flood damage, vulnerability, and risk to civil systems such as residential buildings. The outcome of an FDA depends on the spatial limits of the study and the complexity of the data. F...
The accurate and timely identification of the degree of building damage is critical for disaster emergency response and loss assessment. Although many methods have been proposed, most of them divide damaged buildings into two categories—intact...
Earthquake disasters are marked by their unpredictability and potential for extreme destructiveness. Accurate information on building damage, captured in post-earthquake remote sensing images, is critical for an effective post-disaster emergency resp...
The rapid assessment of building damage in earthquake-stricken areas is of paramount importance for emergency response. The development of remote sensing technology has aided in deriving reliable and precise building damage assessments of extensive a...
From the perspective of building health monitoring and property management, this research proposes some parametric measures of the capitalization rate, in order to define a range of significant values to be used in a cash flow analysis intended for m...
The 2015 Nepal Earthquake (Mw7.8) affected more than 9000 schools in the country. Damage distribution in the 14 most-affected administrative districts shows that the construction practices were an important determent for the level of damage extended....
On 19 September 2017, an intraplate earthquake with a magnitude of Mw = 7.1 occurred in Mexico. Visual inspection reports following the earthquake indicated that 11% of high-risk structures and 35% of collapsed buildings were situated at block corner...
Historical masonry structures, which constitute an important part of the historical heritage, exhibit brittle behavior under tensile stresses due to earthquakes or soil movements/settlements. Therefore, they are sensitive to deformation. The soil&nda...
Seismic design in building construction is still new in Malaysia. Sabah, a Malaysian state, is situated southeast of the Eurasian Plate, between the highly active Philippine Sea Plate and Indo-Australian Plate, and has a history of earthquakes, with...
The rapid and accurate damage assessment of buildings plays a critical role in disaster response. Based on pairs of pre- and post-disaster remote sensing images, effective building damage level assessment can be conducted. However, most existing meth...
Reinforced concrete buildings suffered significant damage in the region affected by the 29 May 2011 earthquake in Simav (Kutahya), Turkey. Typical building damage is classified and potential causes of damage are investigated. Reinforced concrete mome...
Accurate and efficient post-earthquake building damage assessment methods enable key building damage information to be obtained more quickly after an earthquake, providing strong support for rescue and reconstruction efforts. Although many methods ha...
The purpose of the research presented in the article is to identify the impact of the processes associated with the broadly understood maintenance of old residential buildings with a traditional construction on the size and intensity of the wear of t...
A timely and accurate damage assessment of buildings after an earthquake is critical for the safety of people and property. Most of the existing methods based on classification and segmentation use two-dimensional information to determine the damage...
Global vibration-based methods in the field of structural health monitoring are intended to capture structural stiffness changes of buildings or other civil engineering structures. Natural frequencies of buildings or bridges are commonly used paramet...
The present work aims to assess the large-scale seismic vulnerability of a set of 55 reinforced concrete educational establishments of different typologies (approximately 516 constructions) located within the urban perimeter of the city of Mostaganem...
The Zagreb 2020 earthquake severely damaged the historic centre of the city. Most of the damage occurred on historic masonry residential buildings, many of which are situated very close to the tram track. Although traffic-induced vibrations generally...
The present article focuses on the assessment of the potential advantages and disadvantages of the utilisation of modern building inventory technologies in crisis situations, using a case study of Ukraine, currently engulfed in armed conflict. The fo...
Natural and anthropogenic disasters can cause significant damage to urban infrastructure, landscape, and loss of human life. Satellite based remote sensing plays a key role in rapid damage assessment, post-disaster reconnaissance and recovery. In thi...
Timely detection of the spatial distribution of building damage in the immediate aftermath of a disaster is essential for guiding emergency response and recovery strategies. In January 2025, a large-scale wildfire struck the Los Angeles metropolitan...
The most negative effects caused by earthquakes are the damage and collapse of buildings. Seismic building retrofitting and repair can effectively reduce the negative impact on post-earthquake buildings. The priority to repair the construction after...
Seismic risk assessment has become a crucial issue for optimal management of economic resources allocated to mitigation. For this purpose, in the last decades, several research activities were aimed to update hazard, exposure, and vulnerability model...
Moisture damage in buildings has traditionally been discussed primarily in relation to winter condensation in cold climates. In hot-humid regions, however, damage develops under different boundary conditions, including warm and humid outdoor air, fre...
The slow movement of active deep-seated slope gravitational deformations (DSGSDs) and deep-seated rockslides can cause damage to structures and infrastructures. We use Permanent Scatterers Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (PSInSAR™) displaceme...
When natural disasters occur, timely and accurate building damage assessment maps are vital for disaster management responders to organize their resources efficiently. Pairs of pre- and post-disaster remote sensing imagery have been recognized as inv...
Remote sensing, particularly using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, can be an effective tool in detecting and assessing the area and amount of building damages caused by earthquake or tsunami. Several studies have provided experimental evidenc...
After an earthquake, rapidly and accurately obtaining building damage information can help to effectively guide the implementation of the emergency rescue and can reduce disaster losses and casualties. Using a single post-earthquake fully-polarimetri...
Natural disasters frequently cause significant building damage, necessitating timely and accurate damage assessment for effective rescue operations and post-disaster reconstruction. Traditional building damage assessment methods commonly rely on pair...
Reliable assessment of building damage is essential for effective disaster management. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has become a valuable tool for damage detection, as it operates independently of the daylight and weather conditions. However, the l...
On 6 February 2023, two major earthquakes occurred in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş. The first earthquake with a magnitude of Mw 7.7 occurred in the center of Kahramanmaras, while the second earthquake with a magnitude of Mw 7.5 occurred...
Existing Reinforced Concrete School buildings with low earthquake resistance may suffer structural failure or severe damage in a catastrophic seismic event. Ascertaining earthquake resistance in existing school buildings is vital to confirming the sa...
Post-earthquake field investigations provide significant contributions to earthquake-resistant building design. Especially after devastating earthquakes, determining the damage levels in buildings is an important issue for structural engineering. The...
In a post-earthquake scenario, the semantic enrichment of 3D building models with seismic damage is crucial from the perspective of disaster management. This paper aims to present the methodology and the results for the Level of Detail 3 (LOD3) build...
This study emphasizes the significance of employing systematic approaches and precise modeling techniques to evaluate potential building damage from metro tunnel excavations. Mair et al. (1996) proposed a three-stage assessment framework comprising p...
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