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The contribution demonstrates the benefits of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)-based surveys for building damage evaluation and decisions on interventions after an earthquake. The case study focuses on the historic village of Castelluccio di Norcia (Italy), heavily damaged by the 2016 earthquake. By constructing a 3D model based on UAV flights, the damage levels are estimated for buildings in the village and an optimal set of intervention measures is proposed. For the decision analysis, a pre-posterior Bayesian technique is utilized. The efficiency of the UAV-based survey is highlighted through a cost-benefit analysis and by considering parameters such as the time constraints, the quality of obtained data and the risk of inspecting persons. The proposed method seems to be efficient in organizing rescuing activities, managing emergency measures and specifying interventions, following the occurrence of an accidental situation.
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The present contribution was supported by the Regensburg Centre of Energy and Resources (RCER) of OTH Regensburg, by the Technology and Science Network Oberpfalz (TWO), and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under Grant LTT18003. It is partly based on the thesis by V. Croce, supervised by M. G. Bevilacqua, E. Bascherini, L. Lanini and I. Martinez-Espejo Zaragoza from University of Pisa, and by D. Diamantidis from OTH Regensburg.
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Croce, V., Diamantidis, D., Sýkora, M. (2022). Seismic Damage Evaluation and Decisions on Interventions Supported by UAV-Based Surveys. In: Vayas, I., Mazzolani, F.M. (eds) Protection of Historical Constructions. PROHITECH 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 209. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90788-4_20
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