Remote Sensing Hail Damage To Roofs

Towery abstract a 4 year research project was conducted on the feasibility of using aerial photography for the adjustment of crop hail damage.

Remote sensing hail damage to roofs.

A few days after the hail the insurance company used drones to create an overview of the cornfield crop damage. Hail and roof investigations 2 0 how technology is changing the field and making things safer. While the worst of the surge and. By russell zeckner in an era of seemingly daily technological advances one might wonder why most roofing investigations are still conducted as they were decades ago reliant upon observation by the human eye and contingent on the inspector s training and experience.

Failures of these large openings can lead to internal pressurization which can cause additional structural damage to roofs and walls. To explore garage door and associated roof damage for a large number of homes in historical events ibhs collaborated with the university of illinois at urbana champaign to analyze damage data in the following categories using remote sensing techniques. Garage doors or roll up doors on residential and commercial structures are vulnerable components that are often damaged in windstorms. Today inspecting the roofs of homes with a low probability of preexisting hail damage is likely not worth the expense.

The area of 660 acres was mapped using mavinci sirius pro unmanned vehicle. Emergency operations vulnerable areas roofing materials resistances spectral bands 1. Value adding is realisable through modelling storm damage and. However considering the high frequency of hail events and claims losses it s important to know as much as possible about the age size condition and cost to replace the roof.

True diagnostic approach a key value of the technology is that it requires little human assistance to capture data from the image. Workflow combining remote sensing and gis. 758 images were generated by uav using rtk gps positioning system and near infrared sensor imagery. Remote sensing and gis provides an economically viable technique for the recording correlation analysis and judicious evaluation of hail damage loss accuracy consistency and creating a relational database.

Some applications of remote sensing of crop hail damage in the insurance industry by neil g. The results indicate that loss assessments could not be made with sufficient accuracy 10 in individual. Garage door damage with roof damage. Introduction the hazard of hail storms results in high num ber of casualties and damage to property in sydney australia.

This study utilized high spatial resolution oblique remote sensing data to assess the condition of garage doors and roof. Noaa s remote sensing division flew over hurricane damage along the gulf coast to provide information for homeland security and emergency response requirements.