An overview of drone applications in the construction industry

HW Choi, HJ Kim, SK Kim, WS Na - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The integration of drones in the construction industry has ushered in a new era of efficiency,
accuracy, and safety throughout the various phases of construction projects. This paper …

Tsunami damage detection with remote sensing: A review

S Koshimura, L Moya, E Mas, Y Bai - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tsunamis are rare events compared with the other natural disasters, but once it happens, it
can be extremely devastating to the coastal communities. Extensive inland penetration of …

Mapping an earthquake-induced landslide based on UAV imagery; case study of the 2015 Okeanos landslide, Lefkada, Greece

S Valkaniotis, G Papathanassiou, A Ganas - Engineering geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract On November 17, 2015 07: 10 UTC an earthquake of M w 6.5 induced slope
failures mainly at the western part of the island of Lefkada, Ionian Sea, Greece. The most …

Geohazard recognition and inventory mapping using airborne LiDAR data in complex mountainous areas

C Guo, Q Xu, X Dong, W Li, K Zhao, H Lu, Y Ju - Journal of Earth Science, 2021 - Springer
Geohazard recognition and inventory mapping are absolutely the keys to the establishment
of reliable susceptibility and hazard maps. However, it has been challenging to implement …

Unmanned aerial vehicles enabled IoT platform for disaster management

W Ejaz, MA Azam, S Saadat, F Iqbal, A Hanan - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Efficient and reliable systems are required to detect and monitor disasters such as wildfires
as well as to notify the people in the disaster-affected areas. Internet of Things (IoT) is the …

Wildfire front monitoring with multiple uavs using deep q-learning

A Viseras, M Meissner, J Marchal - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wildfires destroy thousands of hectares every summer all over the globe. To provide an
effective response and to mitigate wildfires impact, firefighters require a real-time monitoring …

Near-real-time gradually expanding 3D land surface reconstruction in disaster areas by sequential drone imagery

ML Cheng, M Matsuoka, W Liu, F Yamazaki - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
The ability of drones to access disaster areas has been proven powerful and flexible for
acquiring first-hand optical imagery data for environmental observation. However, such …

UAV and GIS based rapid earthquake-induced building damage assessment and methodology for EMS-98 isoseismal map drawing: The June 12, 2017 Mw 6.3 …

S Mavroulis, E Andreadakis, NI Spyrou… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract On June 12, 2017, an Mw 6.3 earthquake struck Lesvos Island (Northeastern
Aegean, Greece). Building damage was observed in its southeastern part with very heavy …

Regional landslide mapping model developed by a deep transfer learning framework using post-event optical imagery

A Asadi, LG Baise, S Chatterjee, M Koch… - … and Management of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Landslides are major natural disasters in mountainous areas, often caused by earthquakes
and heavy rainfalls. Traditional manual delineation methods for identifying landslide …

Pixel-based classification method for earthquake-induced landslide mapping using remotely sensed imagery, geospatial data and temporal change information

A Asadi, LG Baise, M Koch, B Moaveni, S Chatterjee… - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
A series of earthquakes occurred in Kumamoto, Japan, in April 2016, which caused
numerous landslides. In this study, high-resolution pre-event and post-event optical imagery …