Building Damage Assessment from Tropical Cyclone Melissa-25 in Crawford Village, 2025

UNOSAT identified approximately 1,089 buildings as 100% damaged in Crawford Village, Saint Elizabeth Parish. This preliminary analysis uses a WorldView-2 very high-resolution satellite image acquired on 29 October 2025 to map structures damaged by Tropical Cyclone MELISSA-25. The dataset is provided by the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Assess the scale of infrastructure destruction based on the count of 100% damaged buildings.
• Plan humanitarian relief and reconstruction efforts based on the geospatial location of damaged structures.
• Validate or train machine learning models for building damage detection based on the use of very high-resolution satellite imagery.
• Analyze the localized impact of a specific tropical cyclone event based on the focused geographic area of Crawford Village.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on a WorldView-2 very high-resolution satellite image, which likely provides detailed visual data.
• The dataset provides a specific count of approximately 1,089 buildings assessed as 100% damaged.
• Data is provided by the authoritative United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT).
• The analysis is temporally precise, using an image from 29 October 2025 and representing conditions as of that date.

Limitations

• This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field, as stated in the description.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's scale is limited to a single village (Crawford Village), which may not represent broader regional impacts.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)

Collection Method

Damage detection performed using a WorldView-2 very high-resolution satellite image.

Time Range

Analysis reflects conditions as of 29 October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 04:49:38.177157; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Crawford Village, Black River District, Saint Elizabeth Parish.