Title
Knowledge-Based Detection and Assessment of Damaged Roads Using Post-Disaster High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image
Abstract
Road damage detection and assessment from high-resolution remote sensing image is critical for natural disaster investigation and disaster relief. In a disaster context, the pairing of pre-disaster and post-disaster road data for change detection and assessment is difficult to achieve due to the mismatch of different data sources, especially for rural areas where the pre-disaster data (i.e., remote sensing imagery or vector map) are hard to obtain. In this study, a knowledge-based method for road damage detection and assessment solely from post-disaster high-resolution remote sensing image is proposed. The road centerline is firstly extracted based on the preset road seed points. Then, features such as road brightness, standard deviation, rectangularity, and aspect ratio are selected to form a knowledge model. Finally, under the guidance of the road centerline, the post-disaster roads are extracted and the damaged roads are detected by applying the knowledge model. In order to quantitatively assess the damage degree, damage assessment indicators with their corresponding standard of damage grade are also proposed. The newly developed method is evaluated using a WorldView-1 image over Wenchuan, China acquired three days after the earthquake on 15 May 2008. The results show that the producer's accuracy (PA) and user's accuracy (UA) reached about 90% and 85%, respectively, indicating that the proposed method is effective for road damage detection and assessment. This approach also significantly reduces the need for pre-disaster remote sensing data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/rs70404948
REMOTE SENSING
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Change detection,Remote sensing,Emergency management,Natural disaster,Artificial intelligence,Geology,Standard deviation,Vector map
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
2072-4292
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
16
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianhua Wang198.98
Qi-ming Qin215849.12
Jianghua Zhao341.12
Xin Ye4258.36
xiao feng540.44
Xuebin Qin6327.95
Xiucheng Yang7327.04