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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Haiti earthquake"”.
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A criminology of catastrophe: a critical analysis of imperialistic state crime and the Haiti earthquake
… I substantiate this argument with an analysis of Haiti and demonstrate how its history of imperialistic exploitation by the US amounted to a pattern of state crime victimization that marginalized Haitians and, consequently, shaped their suffering from the 2010 earthquake. The story of Haiti …
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Detection of Urban Damage Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Algorithms: Revisiting the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
… sensing continues to be an invaluable tool in earthquake damage assessments and emergency response. This study evaluates the effectiveness of multilayer feedforward neural networks, radial basis neural networks, and Random Forests in detecting earthquake damage caused by the 2010 …
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Effect of Earthquake and Human Migration on Land Cover and Mass Wasting from The 2010 Haiti Earthquake
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti displaced millions of people and drastically induced mass wasting. The purpose of this study is to explore comprehensive relationships between population displacement and landslide frequency by comparing land use and land cover (LULC) maps of pre- and post-earthquake. …
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Speeding into Action: The Influence of Paramilitary Culture on Disaster Response Organizations in the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
… military's Southern Command/Joint Task Force-Haiti. The 2010 Haiti earthquake is used as a case study to explore the influence of three independent variables: (1) paramilitarism; (2) career ladders (i.e., recruitment and professional development of staff); and (3) workforce autonomy. The …
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Mapping Building Damage Caused by Earthquakes Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
… etc. However, they are usually vulnerable to earthquakes, and collapsed buildings are the main factor of fatalities and directly impact livelihoods. It is particularly important to quickly and accurately obtain damaged building conditions for further planning rescue. Remote sensing has the …
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Credibility assessment of volunteered geographic information for emergency management: a Bayesian network modeling approach
… of the volunteered geographic data from the Haiti earthquake, this thesis examines the behavioral characteristics and the benefits of the developed credibility model. In a set of experiments, damage assessments with and without the credibility assessments are conducted and compared with an …
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Safeguarding from Scrutiny: Toward a Critical Consciousness of Organizational Culture in Humanitarian NGOs
… of the Oxfam abuse scandal from the 2010 Haiti earthquake, growing calls for new safeguarding measures have resulted in unresolved implications around organizational culture. This dissertation shows that the sector has delivered a largely technocratic response, with new policies, …
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The use of geospatial tools to support, monitor and evaluate post-disaster recovery
… one-and-a-half years after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Chapter 4 describes how geospatial tools were used to support a British Red Cross integrated reconstruction project for 500 households living in an informal settlement. The chapter describes how geospatial tools were used as a …
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Crustal deformation source monitoring using advanced InSAR time series and time dependent inverse modeling
… deformation may precede and/or succeed the earthquake occurrence and eruption. Mitigating the associated hazard, continuous monitoring of the crustal deformation accordingly has become an important task for geo-observatories and fast response systems. Due to highly non-linear behavior of the …