Detection of collapsed buildings caused by the 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake through digital analysis of post-event aerial photographs

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4701-4714

  Turker, M ^a   San, B Taner ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

OPTIMUM THRESHOLD VALUE; PIXELS; SHADOW CASTING EDGES; VECTOR POLYGONS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BUILDING; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IZMIT; KOCAELI; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 8744232115     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160410001709976     Document Type: Article

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