Detecting building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami using TerraSAR-X data

Hideomi Gokon; Shunichi Koshimura; Joachim Post; Christian Geis; Enrico Stein; Masashi Matsuoka

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946816

Detecting building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami using TerraSAR-X data

Hideomi Gokon, Shunichi Koshimura, Joachim Post, Christian Geis, Enrico Stein, Masashi Matsuoka

IRIDeS - Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division

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Abstract

In this study, a semi-automated method to estimate building damage in a tsunami affected area is developed using pre- and post-event high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (TerraSAR-X) data. For development, some coastal areas affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami were focused. The method for estimating building damage consists of three steps, 1) To detect flooded areas by the tsunami, 2) To detect built-up areas, 3) To estimate building damage inside the flooded built-up areas. The previously proposed methods using high-resolution SAR data needs building footprint data for estimating building damage[1]. However, this problem was improved by developing a new method which does not need building footprint data to estimate building damage caused by the tsunami. The developed method was validated on the other test sites and the estimated results showed good consistency with the ground truth data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1851-1854
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479957750
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946816
Publication status	Published - 2014 Nov 4
Event	Joint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014 - Quebec City, Canada Duration: 2014 Jul 13 → 2014 Jul 18

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Name	International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

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Conference	Joint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Quebec City
Period	14/7/13 → 14/7/18

Keywords

Building damage
Remote sensing
TerraSAR-X
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami

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Gokon, H., Koshimura, S., Post, J., Geis, C., Stein, E., & Matsuoka, M. (2014). Detecting building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami using TerraSAR-X data. In International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) (pp. 1851-1854). Article 6946816 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946816

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Gokon, H, Koshimura, S, Post, J, Geis, C, Stein, E & Matsuoka, M 2014, Detecting building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami using TerraSAR-X data. in International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)., 6946816, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1851-1854, Joint 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, CSRS 2014, Quebec City, Canada, 14/7/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946816

Detecting building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami using TerraSAR-X data. / Gokon, Hideomi; Koshimura, Shunichi; Post, Joachim et al.
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Gokon H, Koshimura S, Post J, Geis C, Stein E, Matsuoka M. Detecting building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami using TerraSAR-X data. In International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. p. 1851-1854. 6946816. (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946816

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