RAPIDMap: Rapid Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Mapping from Satellite and Street-view Imagery

arXiv:2609.00046 · cs.MA, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.MA, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted by CaGIS Conference 2026, https://cartogis.org/docs/conferences/CaGIS_2026/abstracts/research/Yang_and_Zou_research_abstract_CaGIS_2026.pdf

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Rapid and reliable disaster mapping of impacted areas, damaged infrastructure, and affected populations is essential for emergency response and recovery.

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Rapid and reliable disaster mapping of impacted areas, damaged infrastructure, and affected populations is essential for emergency response and recovery. However, existing AI-based approaches often require extensive manual annotation, lack cross-hazard generalization, and rely on single-modal observations. To address these challenges, this paper proposes RAPIDMap, a rapid multi-agent pipeline for zero-shot interpretable disaster mapping from satellite and street-view imagery. The framework integrates four intelligent agents: Disaster Perception Agent (DPA), Image Restoration Agent (IRA), Damage Recognition Agent (DRA), and Disaster Mapping Agent (DMA). By combining remote sensing and street-view data, RAPIDMap eliminates the need for manual fine-tuning, generalizes across multiple disaster categories, and generates structured, map-ready disaster intelligence with recovery recommendations.

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