1) The document proposes using wavelet analysis as an effective tool for detecting wind damage from satellite images by identifying changes to damaged building structures.
2) It describes past research on disaster detection from aerial/satellite images for earthquakes, wildfires, floods, and landslides. For wind damage, past research used statistical analysis of image pixel values.
3) The proposed methodology extracts building structures from pre- and post-disaster satellite images, analyzes pixel radiance data and edge features using conventional and wavelet-based methods, and classifies damage levels using an artificial neural network trained on these extracted features.