BASIC ANALYSIS OF THE DETECTION OF BUILDING DAMAGE AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE USING THE INFRARED CAMERA

Abstract

Building damage assessment is necessary for governments to issue the Victim Certificates for residents who suffered from housing damages. The process of assessment needs accuracy, quickness, objectivity and fairness because the results of assessment are used as criteria for providing public monetary supports for rebuilding of their livelihood. In Japan, several big earthquakes are expected to occur in the near future. A lot of structural damages due to these earthquakes will cause enormous needs for building damage assessment. However, there is a limit on the number of specialists with adequate assessment skills who can access the damaged area under bad traffic conditions. Delay in building damage assessment by local governments can disturb rapid reconstruction of the damaged area. Considering these problems during large-scale earthquake disaster, this paper proposed the new system for building damage assessment using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the infrared camera taken by residents or volunteer fire corps in damaged area. In this study, it is to take the video of building damage using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the infrared camera. And it is automatically to detect building damage from the video and creating hazard map after the disaster.