Road assessment after flood events using non-authoritative data
This research proposes a methodology that leverages non-authoritative data to augment flood extent mapping and the evaluation of transportation infrastructure. The novelty of this approach is the application of freely available, non-authoritative data and its integration with established data and me...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/14/1007/2014/nhess-14-1007-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | This research proposes a methodology that leverages non-authoritative data to
augment flood extent mapping and the evaluation of transportation
infrastructure. The novelty of this approach is the application of freely
available, non-authoritative data and its integration with established data
and methods. Crowdsourced photos and volunteered geographic data are fused
together using a geostatistical interpolation to create an estimation of
flood damage in New York City following Hurricane Sandy. This damage
assessment is utilized to augment an authoritative storm surge map as well as
to create a road damage map for the affected region. |
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| ISSN: | 1561-8633 1684-9981 |