What is it about?
This paper described the use of google street view and photography to record damage and recovery following an explosion in a West, Texas. We then coded the images of each house for amount of damage, and then again for the amount of recovery.
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Why is it important?
This paper describes how visuals can be recorded and used in a scientific way that will support people who want to understand the impacts of disasters and design recovery programs to help their residents rebuild.
Perspectives
Many communities work through recovery with detailed data on the damages or recovery progress. I think that photography provides a way to record these and the visuals can be used to garner more attention and recognition of needs during disaster recovery.
Michelle Meyer
Texas A&M University System
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This page is a summary of: Using Photography to Assess Housing Damage and Rebuilding Progress for Disaster Recovery Planning, Journal of the American Planning Association, April 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2018.1430606.
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