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Understanding Earth's subsurface structures has been and continues to be an essential component of various applications such as environmental monitoring, carbon sequestration, and oil and gas exploration. By viewing the seismic volumes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 G. AlRegib , M. Deriche , Z. Long , H. Di , Z. Wang , Y. Alaudah , M. Shafiq , M. Alfarraj

The detection of flooded areas using high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical task with applications in crisis and disaster management, as well as environmental resource planning. However, the complex nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Tamer Saleh , Xingxing Weng , Shimaa Holail , Chen Hao , Gui-Song Xia

This work aims to produce landslide density estimates using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imageries to prioritise emergency resources for rapid response. We use the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landslide Inventory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Vanessa Boehm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollán

Rapid situational awareness is critical in post-disaster response. While remote sensing damage assessment is evolving from pixel-level change detection to high-level semantic analysis, existing vision-language methodologies still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Dongwei Sun , Jing Yao , Kan Wei , Xiangyong Cao , Chen Wu , Zhenghui Zhao , Pedram Ghamisi , Jun Zhou , Jón Atli Benediktsson

Accurate classification of buildings into residential and non-residential categories is crucial for urban planning, infrastructure development, population estimation and resource allocation. It is a complex job to carry out automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jai G Singla

Building coverage statistics provide crucial insights into the urbanization, infrastructure, and poverty level of a region, facilitating efforts towards alleviating poverty, building sustainable cities, and allocating infrastructure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Enci Liu , Chenlin Meng , Matthew Kolodner , Eun Jee Sung , Sihang Chen , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with bioradars are a life-saving technology that can enable identification of survivors under collapsed buildings in the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes or gas explosions. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Mayank Mittal , Rohit Mohan , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Rapid and accurate building damage assessments from high-resolution satellite imagery following a natural disaster is essential to inform and optimize first responder efforts. However, performing such building damage assessments in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Caleb Robinson , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , Anthony Ortiz , Tina Sederholm , Rahul Dodhia , Cameron Birge , Kasie Richards , Kris Pitcher , Paulo Duarte , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Seismic coherent noise is often found in post-stack seismic data, which contaminates the resolution and integrity of seismic images. It is difficult to remove the coherent noise since the features of coherent noise, e.g., frequency, is…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Xiao Ma , Gang Yao , Sanyi Yuan , Feng Zhang , Di Wu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery generation is essential for deepening the study of scattering mechanisms, establishing trustworthy electromagnetic scene models, and fundamentally alleviating the data scarcity bottleneck that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yongxiang Liu , Jie Zhou , Yafei Song , Tianpeng Liu , Li Liu

Airports have an important role in both military and civilian domains. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based airport detection has received increasing attention in recent years. However, due to the high cost of SAR imaging and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Daochang Wang , Fan Zhang , Fei Ma , Wei Hu , Yu Tang , Yongsheng Zhou

Social media aids disaster response but suffers from noise, hindering accurate impact assessment and decision making for resilient cities, which few studies considered. To address the problem, this study proposes the first domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jin Han , Zhe Zheng , Xin-Zheng Lu , Ke-Yin Chen , Jia-Rui Lin

Dynamically triggered earthquakes and tremor generate two classes of weak seismic signals whose detection, identification, and authentication traditionally call for laborious analyses. Machine learning (ML) has grown in recent years to be a…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Omkar Ranadive , Suzan van der Lee , Vivian Tang , Kevin Chao

Sunquakes are seismic emissions visible on the solar surface, associated with some solar flares. Although discovered in 1998, they have only recently become a more commonly detected phenomenon. Despite the availability of several manual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Vanessa Mercea , Alin Razvan Paraschiv , Daniela Adriana Lacatus , Anca Marginean , Diana Besliu-Ionescu

Post-earthquake hazard and impact estimation are critical for effective disaster response, yet current approaches face significant limitations. Traditional models employ fixed parameters regardless of geographical context, misrepresenting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Xuechun Li , Shan Gao , Runyu Gao , Susu Xu

The problem of identifying models of post-disaster reconstruction is an issue that has been dealt with in depth in a number of works, mostly dedicated to individual cases or to the comparison of models. There are also a number of works that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-12 Mattia Bertin , Jacopo Galli , Francesco Rossi

Access to detailed war impact assessments is crucial for humanitarian organizations to assist affected populations effectively. However, maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the situation on the ground is challenging, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Olivier Dietrich , Torben Peters , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Valerie Sticher , Thao Ton-That Whelan , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner

The high structural deficient rate poses serious risks to the operation of many bridges and buildings. To prevent critical damage and structural collapse, a quick structural health diagnosis tool is needed during normal operation or…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-10 Yizheng Liao , Anne S. Kiremidjian , Ram Rajagopal , Chin-Hsuing Loh

In this paper, we study the problem of efficiently assessing building damage after natural disasters like hurricanes, floods or fires, through aerial video analysis. We make two main contributions. The first contribution is a new dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoyu Zhu , Junwei Liang , Alexander Hauptmann

Timely and accurate detection of hurricane debris is critical for effective disaster response and community resilience. While post-disaster aerial imagery is readily available, robust debris segmentation solutions applicable across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Kooshan Amini , Yuhao Liu , Jamie Ellen Padgett , Guha Balakrishnan , Ashok Veeraraghavan