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Hurricane Damage Assessment Process For Residential Buildings, Carol C. Massarra
Hurricane Damage Assessment Process For Residential Buildings, Carol C. Massarra
LSU Master's Theses
Assessing an affected area immediately after a severe natural hazard event and saving the resulting data are vitally important in any effort to reduce future economic losses from natural hazards. These data are used as a record of buildings performance and as a major component for statistical analysis and damage modeling studies. Since these data are used as input for these studies, the data must be assessed and collected in a scientific and standardized way. Despite this requirement, neither a systematic damage assessment process nor a standardized data collection protocol is currently available in the United States to ensure that …