Object-Based Method for Estimating Tsunami-Induced Damage Using TerraSAR-X Data

• Gokon Hideomi

  Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

• Koshimura Shunichi

  International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University

• Matsuoka Masashi

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Abstract

The object-based method we developed to estimate building damage uses high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (TerraSAR-X) data from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The damage function we developed involves the relationship between changes in the sigma nought values of pre- and postevent TerraSAR-X data and the damage ratio of washed-away buildings. We confirmed that the function performed as expected by estimating the number of washed-away buildings in homogeneous areas, agreeing well with ground truth data verified by a Pearson fs correlation coefficient of 0.99. The same damage function applied at another test site yielded a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.98. These results are sufficient to ensure transferability. We then simplified and semiautomated these processes in an ArcGIS environment, estimating building damage in the city of Sendai within 26 minutes.

Journal

• Journal of Disaster Research

  Journal of Disaster Research 11 (2), 225-235, 2016-03-01

  Fuji Technology Press Ltd.

Keywords

• Remote sensing
• Building damage
• Tsunami
• SAR
• Object-based method

Details

• CRID: 1390845713080975488
• NII Article ID: 130007673657
• DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2016.p0225
• ISSN: 18838030
• ISSN: 18812473
• NDL BIB ID: 027252369
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027252369
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• Text Lang: en
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