Damage Proxy Maps for the 2023 Maui wildfires and 2023 Morocco Earthquake

This dataset includes maps that show a proxy for damage due to earthquakes or other disruptions, called damage proxy maps. The maps are calculated from synthetic aperture radar data acquired by the ALOS-2 satellite operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). One map covers the western part of the island of Maui, where a wildfire caused devastating damage to the city of Lahaina in early August 2023. The second map covers south central Morocco, including the High Atlas Mountains, where an earthquake caused widespread damage on 8 September 2023. The methodology is described in these publications: S.-H. Yun, K. Hudnut, S. Owen, F. Webb, M. Simons, P. Sacco, E. Gurrola, G. Manipon, C. Liang, E. Fielding, P. Milillo, H. Hua, A. Coletta, Rapid Damage Mapping for the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Data from COSMO–SkyMed and ALOS-2 Satellites, Seismol. Res. Lett., 86 (2015) 1549-1556. J. Jung, S.-H. Yun, D.-J. Kim, M. Lavalle, Damage-Mapping Algorithm Based on Coherence Model Using Multitemporal Polarimetric–Interferometric SAR Data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56 (2018) 1520-1532.