DamageScope: Vision-Language Retrieval at Scale for Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite Imagery
Read the original on arXiv Computation and Language →DamageScope is a retrieval‑augmented framework that combines satellite imagery, Vision‑Language Models (VLMs), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate property damage assessment after natural disasters. It uses a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to extract structured visual representations from satellite images, enabling interactive natural language queries. The system introduces a multi‑vector embedding‑based clustering algorithm that improves scalability and reduces indexing time by up to 14×, and a dual‑store data architecture that cuts LLM API calls, lowering operational cost and response latency by roughly 3×.
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