Disaster Response and Rapid Mapping

Earthquake damage assessment and rapid SAR analysis, benchmarked against UNOSAT

Disaster Response and Rapid Mapping
Advanced Geospatial AI 1 lessons Samuel Appiah Kubi

About this course

When disaster strikes, speed and reliability both matter — and this course is built around one honest question: does our rapid SAR damage-assessment pipeline actually hold up against the reference standard used by international disaster response, UNOSAT? We replicate their Kahramanmaraş earthquake assessment step by step and compare our numbers to theirs directly, gap included.

What you'll learn

  • Generate SAR co-seismic change maps within hours of an earthquake, using only public data
  • Classify a 4-tier building-damage scale from bi-temporal SAR
  • Explain why SAR — not optical imagery — is the right tool immediately after most disasters
  • Export analysis-ready products in the UN-SPIDER recommended format
  • Interpret a validation gap against a reference standard honestly rather than rounding it away

Requirements

  • SAR Processing for Flood Mapping
  • Time Series Analysis and Change Detection

Course content

Case Study: Replicating UNOSAT's Kahramanmaraş 2023 Assessment Preview 36 min
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  • LevelAdvanced
  • Lessons1
  • CertificateYes
  • AccessLifetime
Samuel Appiah Kubi Instructor