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Therefore, a highly efficient and intelligent remote-sensing image-processing framework is urgently required to mitigate these challenges. In this article, a deep learning algorithm for the semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote-sensing images using the U-net convolutional network was proposed to map the damage rapidly. The algorithm was implemented within a Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit framework in the GeoAI platform provided by Microsoft. The study takes the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake-Tsunami as a case study, for which the pre- and post-disaster high-resolution WorldView-2 image is used. The performance of the proposed U-net model is compared with that of deep residual U-net. The comparison highlights the superiority U-net for tsunami damage mapping in this work. Our proposed method achieves the overall accuracy of 70.9% in classifying the damage into \u201cwashed away,\u201d \u201ccollapsed,\u201d and \u201csurvived\u201d at the pixel level. In future disaster scenarios, our proposed model can generate the damage map in approximately 2\u201315 min when the preprocessed remote-sensing datasets are available. Our proposed damage-mapping framework has significantly improved the application value in operational disaster response practice by substantially reducing the manual operation steps required in the actual disaster response. Besides, the proposed framework is highly flexible to extend to other scenarios and various disaster types, which can accelerate operational disaster response practice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10101626","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,12]],"date-time":"2018-10-12T10:54:03Z","timestamp":1539341643000},"page":"1626","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":92,"title":["Towards Operational Satellite-Based Damage-Mapping Using U-Net Convolutional Network: A Case Study of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake-Tsunami"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5223-9425","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanbing","family":"Bai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Aoba 468-1-E301, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4861-5739","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erick","family":"Mas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Aoba 468-1-E301, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8352-0639","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shunichi","family":"Koshimura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Aoba 468-1-E301, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1250001-1","DOI":"10.1142\/S0578563412500015","article-title":"Nationwide post event survey and analysis of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami","volume":"54","author":"Mori","year":"2012","journal-title":"Coast. 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