Paper Info
Title
The Combined Use of Airborne Remote Sensing Techniques within a GIS Environment for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Areas: An Operational Application.
Abstract
The knowledge of the topographic features, the building properties, and the road infrastructure settings are relevant operational tasks for managing post-crisis events, restoration activities, and for supporting search and rescue operations. Within such a framework, airborne remote sensing tools have demonstrated to be powerful instruments, whose joint use can provide meaningful analyses to support the risk assessment of urban environments. Based on this rationale, in this study, the operational benefits obtained by combining airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral measurements are shown. Terrain and surface digital models are gathered by using LiDAR data. Information about roads and roof materials are provided through the supervised classification of hyperspectral images. The objective is to combine such products within a geographic information system (GIS) providing value-added maps to be used for the seismic vulnerability assessment of urban environments. Experimental results are gathered for the city of Cosenza, Italy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/rs8020146
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
hyperspectral images,LiDAR,historical heritages,urban assessment,seismic environments
Geographic information system,Search and rescue,Vulnerability assessment,Topographic map,Terrain,Remote sensing,Risk assessment,Hyperspectral imaging,Lidar,Geology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
2
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Costanzo100.68
Antonio Montuori2305.37
Juan Pablo Silva300.34
Malvina Silvestri426.42
Massimo Musacchio575.08
Fawzi Doumaz600.34
Salvatore Stramondo77823.19
Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno8118.45