Building Damage Assessment Portal

Satellite-based building damage assessment using Sentinel-1 radar imagery and interferometric coherent change detection. This open source tool serves up pre-processed data on building damage and destruction in armed conflict settings, generated automatically using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) coherent change detection. Explore per-district damage counts and download derived geospatial data products. These preliminary results are adapted from methods described in the following peer-reviewed and in-preparation publications:

1. Scher, C. and Van Den Hoek, J. (2025). Nationwide conflict damage mapping with interferometric synthetic aperture radar: A study of the 2022 Russia–Ukraine conflict. Science of Remote Sensing, 11, 100217. doi:10.1016/j.srs.2025.100217
2. Scher, C. and Van Den Hoek, J. (2025). Active InSAR monitoring of building damage in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas War. arXiv preprint. arXiv:2506.14730

Contact

For questions about data access or methodology, contact data@conflict-ecology.org.