Building Damage Assessment in Black River Village Post-Tropical Cyclone

UNOSAT identified approximately 314 destroyed and 1,183 damaged buildings in Black River Village, Saint Elizabeth Parish. The analysis was performed using a WorldView-2 very high-resolution satellite image acquired on 29 October 2025. This preliminary damage assessment from the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has not yet been validated in the field.

Use Cases

• Assess the scale of structural damage based on satellite-identified destroyed and damaged buildings.
• Plan humanitarian aid and resource allocation for a specific village post-cyclone.
• Validate remote damage assessments with ground verification efforts.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of building damage within a defined geographic area.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on a very high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite image.
• Provides specific counts of destroyed (314) and damaged (1,183) buildings.
• Geographic focus is clearly defined as Black River Village, Saint Elizabeth Parish.

Limitations

• The analysis is preliminary and has not been validated by ground verification.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)

Collection Method

Damage and destruction were identified using a WorldView-2 very high-resolution satellite image.

Time Range

Satellite image acquired on 29 October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 04:49:38.926823

Geography

Black River Village, Saint Elizabeth Parish.