Recent studies have reported
that high-resolution satellite imagery (HRSI) can be used to
detect post-seismic building damage (Yonezawa and Takeuchi2001; Matsuoka and Yamazaki, 2004, 2005; Gamba et al., 2007) owing to its large coverage and relatively low cost, short revisit
time, adaptable stereo imaging capability, and high (and rapidly
increasing) spatial resolution (Tong et al., 2009).