Assessing the amount of damage onboard of a military vehicle has been shown using the QCM in one of our blogs. This short article shows how a similar approach can be applied to areas affected by military operations, not just equipment.
We consider an area, shown below, that has been subjected to air strikes and analyze the complexity of satellite images of the same area before and after the said strikes. Based on image complexity, the amount of damage inflicted is around 87%.
The original satellite images are transformed using a proprietary technique before QCM processing, as shown below.
The degree of inflicted damage is equal to 100% minus data similarity, in this case, 100% – 12.66% = 87.3%. This is of course a coarse measure and closer inspection on the ground may be needed to provide a more specific assessment.
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