Earthquakes and other sudden onset natural disasters require quick and efficient emergency response. Earth observation (EO) data can make a valuable contribution to emergency response efforts if provided within hours and at the most days after the event. Mechanisms like the International Charter...

This work addresses the use of remote sensing imagery to quantify the built environment and its spatial and temporal changes. It identifies building footprint map, building location map and built-up area map as information products that can be used to quantify physical exposure, one of the...

After a disaster, prompt distribution of information is critical for national or local governments to plan the disaster response and recovery measures. In case of a tsunami, information about buildings destroyed by the waves is required. Here, we present a method that identifies individual...