Integration of EO-based vulnerability estimation into EO-based seismic damage assessment: A case study on L'Aquila, Italy, 2009 earthquake

Natural Hazards

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 165-180

  Dell'Acqua, Fabio ^a,b   Lanese, Igor ^c   Polli, Diego Aldo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EUCENTRE   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Physical vulnerability; Seismic damage assessment; Synthetic aperture radar; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

AQUILA;

EID: 84880628918     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0490-0     Document Type: Article

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