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Earthquake damage identification: a case study using soft classification approach

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  • Sandeep Sengar
  • Sanjay Ghosh
  • Anil Kumar
  • Hans Wason

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The October 8, 2005, Kashmir earthquake (M w 7.6) affected the rough mountainous regions of India and Pakistan with poor accessibility, and thus, no proper comprehensive ground survey was possible. However, due to the ability of remote sensing technology to acquire spectral measurements of damaged areas at various spatial and temporal scales, extraction of damaged areas can be carried out quickly and with great reliability. The fuzzy-based classifiers [Possibilistic c-Means (PCM), noise cluster (NC), and NC with entropy (NCE)] were applied to identify 2005 Kashmir earthquake, induced landslides, as well as built-up damage (BD) areas, as soft computing approaches using supervised classification. Results indicate that for the identification of landslides and BD areas, NCE classifier generated the best outputs, while for the identification of built-up undamaged areas, NC classifier generated the best output. Further, it was found that the proposed Class Based Sensor Independent (CBSI) technique can improve spectral information of specific class for better identification. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

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  • Sandeep Sengar & Sanjay Ghosh & Anil Kumar & Hans Wason, 2014. "Earthquake damage identification: a case study using soft classification approach," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 71(3), pages 1307-1322, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:71:y:2014:i:3:p:1307-1322
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0956-8
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