@report {1385290, title = {Imagery Interpretation Guide: Assessing Wind Disaster Damage to Structures}, year = {2016}, abstract = {

At present, accepted methodologies for wind disaster damage assessments rely almost exclusively on responders having ground access to the affected area to document damage to housing structures. \ This approach can prove both time consuming and inefficient, and does not support the use of drones and satellites.

Geospatially-based damage assessments offer potential improvements to this process in terms of providing responding agencies with previously unavailable information about hard to reach, often non-permissive environments, at a scale and speed not possible through ground-based counts of damaged structures.

This guide provides the first standard method for conducting these types of damage assessments through the analysis of drone and satellite imagery. The {\textquotedblleft}BAR Methodology{\textquotedblright} has been developed by the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at HHI to address this critical gap in this evolving area humanitarian practice.

}, author = {Ziad Al Achkar and Isaac L. Baker and Nathaniel A. Raymond} }