Remote Sensing Hail Damage To Roofs

Hail and roof investigations 2 0 how technology is changing the field and making things safer.

Remote sensing hail damage to roofs.

Workflow combining remote sensing and gis. A few days after the hail the insurance company used drones to create an overview of the cornfield crop damage. While the prevention of hailstorms is a myth the management of dynamic resources for rescue and post disaster. The area of 660 acres was mapped using mavinci sirius pro unmanned vehicle.

Remote sensing technology helps insurers capture property characteristics detect property changes assess property liability risks estimate damage and much more. 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. This study utilized high spatial resolution oblique remote sensing data to assess the condition of garage doors and roof.

758 images were generated by uav using rtk gps positioning system and near infrared sensor imagery. Some applications of remote sensing of crop hail damage in the insurance industry by neil g. Introduction the hazard of hail storms results in high num ber of casualties and damage to property in sydney australia. Failures of these large openings can lead to internal pressurization which can cause additional structural damage to roofs and walls.

Garage door damage without roof damage. While the worst of the surge and. Towery abstract a 4 year research project was conducted on the feasibility of using aerial photography for the adjustment of crop hail damage. 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.

Today inspecting the roofs of homes with a low probability of preexisting hail damage is likely not worth the expense. 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. Noaa s remote sensing division flew over hurricane damage along the gulf coast to provide information for homeland security and emergency response requirements. Garage door damage with roof damage.

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. Value adding is realisable through modelling storm damage and.