Earthquake damage detection in urban areas using curvilinear features

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4877-4884

  Brett, Peter T B ^a   Guida, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake damage detection; feature extraction; multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR); urban areas

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE CHANGES; AUTOMATED TOOLS; BUILDING MODEL; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE DETECTION; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; URBAN AREAS;

DAMAGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; COSMO-SKYMED; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GEOMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

ABRUZZI; HAITI; ITALY; L'AQUILA; PORT AU PRINCE;

AQUILA;

EID: 84883875791     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2271564     Document Type: Article

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