{"id":245230,"date":"2026-10-11T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-ai-method-uses-engineering-knowledge-to-estimate-disaster-damage-from-incomplete-satellite-imagery"},"modified":"2026-10-11T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:12:26","slug":"new-ai-method-uses-engineering-knowledge-to-estimate-disaster-damage-from-incomplete-satellite-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-ai-method-uses-engineering-knowledge-to-estimate-disaster-damage-from-incomplete-satellite-imagery","title":{"rendered":"New AI method uses engineering knowledge to estimate disaster damage from incomplete satellite imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-method-uses-engineering-knowledge-to-estimate-disaster-damage-from-incomplete-satellite-imagery3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new technology has been developed that can rapidly predict city-scale structural damage even when portions of satellite imagery are obscured by clouds or smoke immediately after a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by professor In Ho Cho of the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University College of Engineering has presented a scientific artificial intelligence (Scientific AI) and data science framework that uses satellite imagery and various forms of open data to rapidly and accurately predict disaster-related structural damage at the city scale. By incorporating a statistical method for correcting incomplete satellite data, the researchers developed an approach that can estimate structural damage immediately after a disaster without requiring a separate, computationally expensive training stage.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-026-72069-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technology has been developed that can rapidly predict city-scale structural damage even when portions of satellite imagery are obscured by clouds or smoke immediately after a disaster. A research team led by professor In Ho Cho of the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University College of Engineering has presented a scientific artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}