On November 8, 2025, I gave an oral presentation at the 31st Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies (JASDIS), held at Kansai University Takatsuki Muse Campus.
My presentation, titled "Building Damage Estimation in the 2024 Wajima Large-Scale Fire: Trial Application using High-Resolution UAV-DSM Aerial Surveying," introduced a method for rapidly estimating building-level fire damage following the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake. By utilizing a single univariate metric (DSM-DM) calculated from UAV-derived Digital Surface Models (DSM) without requiring pre-disaster imagery, the proposed approach enables the rapid estimation and visualization of primary building damage (such as totally destroyed vs. partially remaining) within hours of data collection. I demonstrated that this method effectively captures structural damage tendencies—such as the high destruction rate of wooden buildings versus the structural retention of RC and steel buildings—highlighting its practical utility and operational considerations for supporting initial emergency response.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the organizers at JASDIS for their hard work in hosting this conference, as well as to all the participants for their engaging discussions and valuable feedback. I will continue my research efforts to advance practical spatial information analysis to support real-world disaster response and information sharing.
For more details on the conference program, please visit the link below.
