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Chisheng Wang1,2, Junzhuo Ke3, Wenqun Xiu4

  • 1Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518000, China. sherwoodwang88@gmail.com.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|September 28, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Passenger aircraft offer a low-cost, high-frequency alternative for remote sensing in emergencies. This volunteered passenger aircraft remote sensing (VPARS) method uses volunteer-captured images for rapid disaster mapping, complementing satellite data.

Keywords:
emergency responseflood damage mappingpassenger aircraftvolunteered remote sensing

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