Welcome to SafeBridge’s documentation!
SafeBridge is an open-source Python package for estimating damage indicators for bridges, utilising Multi-Temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) time-series data and geospatial operations to leverage bridge topologies within a Geographical Information System (GIS) environment. SafeBridge provides an efficient way to derive the damage indicators for bridges promptly in the era of big data.
This documentation serve as a comprehensive guide to using SafeBridge.
Contents:
Indices and tables
Background & Motivation
The growing use of satellite-based monitoring, particularly time-series data from MT-InSAR, has led to a significant increase in data volume and complexity, posing challenges for researchers and engineers in terms of storage, processing, and analysis. Handling such large datasets often requires access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems; however, access to these resources can be limited by institutional constraints, cost, or technical barriers. As an alternative, many professionals rely on in-house computing resources such as laptops, desktops, or workstations, which demand careful optimisation and the use of efficient, open-source tools to manage processing loads. Yet, selecting and effectively using these tools requires expertise across multiple domains, including geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and data science. This is where SafeBridge offers a practical solution—by providing a streamlined, tailored approach for analysing Multi-Temporal InSAR time-series data, it simplifies the complex workflow of bridge damage detection, enabling more users to extract meaningful insights from satellite observations without needing advanced computation infrastructures.
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by Vidi project InStruct, project number 18912, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).