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6. CONCLUSION<br />

We applied the proposed method of the early damaged area estimation system to two earthquake<br />

disasters. It is revealed that the basic method estimation is considerably accurate at least in case that<br />

the cloud influence is little, whereas the estimation by new method using time-series images is hard to<br />

suffer the several kind of influences and result in more reliable.<br />

<strong>The</strong> basic method system has been automated, but the new method one is manually operated. We're<br />

going to build automation system for new method within a couple of years.<br />

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<br />

<strong>The</strong> DMSP-OLS images used in this study are provided by NOAA/NGDC. We wish to thank<br />

NOAA/NGDC and Dr. Haruhiro Fujita for the cooperation.<br />

REFERENCES<br />

Hashitera, S., Maki, N., and Hayashi, H. (1999), "<strong>The</strong> Potential of Using Satellite Images to<br />

Determine an Index of Recovery from Natural Disaster: A Case Study of the Great Hanshin-Awaji<br />

<strong>Earthquake</strong> Disaster," Proceedings of the 6th Japan/United States Workshop on Urban <strong>Earthquake</strong><br />

Hazard Reduction, pp. 492-495.

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