Remote sensing for disaster risk management: Advances and limitations

Norman Kerle; Marc van den Homberg

doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-13220-9.00044-5

Remote sensing for disaster risk management: Advances and limitations

Norman Kerle, Marc van den Homberg

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This chapter explains how the disaster domain has been a key application area for remote sensing since its pioneering days, with a strong development from opportunistic post-event image acquisition to concerted and regular monitoring of socionatural hazards and comprehensive disaster risk management. It highlights recent technical and organizational advances, such as those related to dynamic, multi-hazard risk assessment, as well as large satellite constellations and sophisticated drones, with machine learning and semantic scene analysis playing increasing roles in data processing. Finally, the chapter discusses the limitations of remote sensing data and gaps in how they are used.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Comprehensive Remote Sensing
Editors	Shunlin Liang
Publisher	Elsevier
Number of pages	23
Edition	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9780443239496
ISBN (Print)	9780443132209
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13220-9.00044-5
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print/First online - 11 Nov 2024

Keywords

Disaster
Remote sensing
Early action
Anticipatory action
Damage
Geomatics
Disaster risk management
2025 OA procedure

UN SDGs

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