Erick Arturo Mas Samanez

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University

Degree: Ph.D.(Sep, 2012, Tohoku University)
MSc.(Aug, 2009, National University of Engineering)
B.Eng.(Dec, 2004, National University of Engineering)

Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): Mas Erick
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4861-5739
J-GLOBAL ID: 201301019914512011
Researcher ID: T-2660-2019
researchmap Member ID: 7000004461

External link: https://irides.tohoku.ac.jp/eng/organization/erickmas.html

Research Interests

Major Research Areas

Social infrastructure (civil Engineering, architecture, disaster prevention) / Disaster prevention engineering /

Major Research History

Jun, 2016 - Present

Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University

Education

Awards

Oct, 2021

Docomo Mobile Science Award - Advanced Technology Prize, Fusion of Real-time Simulation and Advanced Sensing, towards Real-time Disaster Science, Mobile Communication Fund

Shunichi Koshimura, Yusaku Ohta, Erick Mas
Jun, 2018

Construction Engineering Research Award, Society for the Promotion of Construction Engineering

Mas, E
Dec, 2017

NRC Merit Award for Scientific Publication, National Research Council of Sri Lanka

Suppasri, A, Goto, K, Muhari, A, Ranasinghe, P, Riyaz, M, Affan, M, Mas, E, Yasuda, M, Imamura, F
Nov, 2017

Excellent Young Researcher Award, 16th International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia

Trumikaborworn, N, Warnitchai, P, Mas, E, Suppasri, A
Nov, 2017

Excellent Young Researcher Award, 16th International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia

Moya, L, Mas, E
Nov, 2017

Poster Award in Academic Research, World Bosai Forum

Mas, E, Felsenstein, D
Oct, 2017

Costal Engineering Journal Citation Award, Costal Engineering Journal

Suppasri, A, Koshimura, S, Imai, K, Mas, E, Gokon, H, Muhari, A, Imamura, F
Sep, 2013

Hazard 2000 International Award, Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science

Suppasri, A, Muhari, A, Ranasinghe, P, Mas, E, Shuto, N, Imamura, F, Koshimura, S
Mar, 2012

Best Presentation Awards for Young Researchers, 9th CUEE and 4th ACEE Joint Conference

Papers

Estimation of the Seismic Source of the 1974 Lima Peru Earthquake and Tsunami (Mw 8.1)

Cesar Jimenez, Jorge Morales, Miguel Estrada, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Journal of Disaster Research, 18(8) 825-834, Dec 1, 2023
Beyond tsunami fragility functions: experimental assessment for building damage estimation

Ruben Vescovo, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Scientific Reports, 13(1), Aug 31, 2023
A Reinforcement Learning Model of Multiple UAVs for Transporting Emergency Relief Supplies

Daiki Hachiya, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Applied Sciences, 12(20) 10427-10427, Oct 16, 2022
Brief communication: Radar images for monitoring informal urban settlements in vulnerable zones in Lima, Peru

Luis Moya, Fernando Garcia, Carlos Gonzales, Miguel Diaz, Carlos Zavala, Miguel Estrada, Fumio Yamazaki, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(1) 65-70, Jan 12, 2022
Sparse Representation-Based Inundation Depth Estimation Using SAR Data and Digital Elevation Model

Luis Moya, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15 9062-9072, 2022
Modeling search and rescue, medical disaster team response and transportation of patients in Ishinomaki city after tsunami disaster

Erick Mas, Shinichi Egawa M.D., Hiroyuki Sasaki M.D., Shunichi Koshimura

E3S Web of Conferences, 340 05001-05001, 2022
Model-based analysis of multi-UAV path planning for surveying postdisaster building damage

Ryosuke Nagasawa, Erick Mas, Luis Moya, Shunichi Koshimura

Scientific Reports, 11(1), Dec, 2021
Method to extract difficult-to-evacuate areas by using tsunami evacuation simulation and numerical analysis

Eri Ito, Takato Kosaka, Michinori Hatayama, Luisa Urra, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 64, Oct, 2021
Enhancement of detecting permanent water and temporary water in flood disasters by fusing sentinel-1 and sentinel-2 imagery using deep learning algorithms: Demonstration of sen1floods11 benchmark datasets

Yanbing Bai, Wenqi Wu, Zhengxin Yang, Jinze Yu, Bo Zhao, Xing Liu, Hanfang Yang, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Remote Sensing, 13(11) NA, Jun 1, 2021
Applicability of Calculation Formulae of Impact Force by Tsunami Driftage

Yoshimichi Yamamoto, Yuji Kozono, Erick Mas, Fumiya Murase, Yoichi Nishioka, Takako Okinaga, Masahide Takeda

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, May, 2021
The potential role of news media to construct a machine learning based damage mapping framework

Genki Okada, Luis Moya, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Remote Sensing, 13(7), Apr, 2021
A comparative analysis of empirical and analytical tsunami fragility functions for buildings in Tumaco, Colombia

Juan Paez-Ramirez, Juan Lizarazo, Sergio Medina, Miguel Rivas, Patricia Luna, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 630(1), Jan 12, 2021
Development of calibrated tsunami evacuation models through real-world collected data: The case study of Coquimbo-La Serena, Chile

Jorge León, Erick Mas, Patricio A. Catalán, Luis Moya, Alejandra Gubler, Shunichi Koshimura, Rodrigo Cienfuegos

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 630(1), Jan 12, 2021
Disaster Intensity-Based Selection of Training Samples for Remote Sensing Building Damage Classification

Luis Moya, Christian Geiss, Masakazu Hashimoto, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Gunter Strunz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1-17, 2021
Pyramid pooling module-based semi-siamese network: A benchmark model for assessing building damage from xbd satellite imagery datasets

Yanbing Bai, Junjie Hu, Jinhua Su, Xing Liu, Haoyu Liu, Xianwen He, Shengwang Meng, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Remote Sensing, 12(24) 1-20, Dec 2, 2020
Advances of International Collaboration on M9 Disaster Science: Scientific Session Report

Elizabeth Maly, Kenjiro Terada, Randall J. LeVeque, Naoko Kuriyama, Daniel B. Abramson, Lan T. Nguyen, Ann Bostrom, Jorge León, Michael Motley, Patricio A. Catalan …

Journal of Disaster Research, 15(7) 890-899, Dec 1, 2020
Combination of school evacuation drill with tsunami inundation simulation: Consensus-making between disaster experts and citizens on an evacuation strategy

Genta Nakano, Katsuya Yamori, Takuya Miyashita, Luisa Urra, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51 101803-101803, Dec, 2020
Technical Solution Discussion for Key Challenges of Operational Convolutional Neural Network-Based Building-Damage Assessment from Satellite Imagery: Perspective from Benchmark xBD Dataset

Jinhua Su, Yanbing Bai, Xingrui Wang, Dong Lu, Bo Zhao, Hanfang Yang, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Remote Sensing, 12(22) 3808-3808, Nov 20, 2020
Tsunami hazard assessment for the central and southern pacific coast of Colombia

Ronald Sanchez Escobar, Luis Otero Diaz, Anlly Melissa Guerrero, Milton Puentes Galindo, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Bruno Adriano, Luisa Urra, Paola Quintero

Coastal Engineering Journal, 1-13, Sep 23, 2020
Learning from the 2018 Western Japan Heavy Rains to Detect Floods during the 2019 Hagibis Typhoon

Luis Moya, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Remote Sensing, 12(14) 2244-2244, Jul 13, 2020 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Tsunamis in Latin American countries

Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

COASTAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 62(3) 349-349, Jul, 2020
Tsunami damage detection with remote sensing: A review

Shunichi Koshimura, Luis Moya, Erick Mas, Yanbing Bai

Geosciences (Switzerland), 10(5), May, 2020
Tsunami analytical fragility curves for the Colombian Pacific coast: A reinforced concrete building example

Sergio Medina, Juan Lizarazo-Marriaga, Martin Estrada, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano

Engineering Structures, 196, Oct 1, 2019
3D gray level co-occurrence matrix and its application to identifying collapsed buildings

Luis Moya, Homa Zakeri, Fumio Yamazaki, Wen Liu, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 149 14-28, Mar, 2019
Evaluation of tsunami fragility curves for building damage level allocation

MOYA Luis, MAS Erick, KOSHIMURA Shunichi

津波工学研究報告, (34) 33‐41-41, Jul 31, 2017
Evaluation of tsunami fragility curves for building damage level allocation

MOYA Luis, MAS Erick, KOSHIMURA Shunichi

津波工学研究報告 = Tsunami engineering = research report of tsunami engineering, (34) 33-41, Jul, 2017
Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake

Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University 6-6-4 Aramaki-Aza Aoba, Aob-ku, Senda, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan …

Journal of Disaster Research, 12(sp) 646-655, Jun, 2017
BUILDING DAMAGE MAPPING USING CHANGE DETECTION OF ALOS‐2 PALSAR‐2 SAR IMAGES AND STRONG MOTION DATA

MOYA Luis, MAS Erick, ADRIANO Bruno, ADRIANO Bruno, KOSHIMURA Shunichi, YAMAZAKI Fumio

日本リモートセンシング学会学術講演会論文集(CD-ROM), 62nd ROMBUNNO.D‐22, May 17, 2017
Object-Based Building Damage Assessment Methodology Using Only Post Event ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Dual Polarimetric SAR Intensity Images

Yanbing Bai, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba 468-1, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0845, Japan, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Hideomi Gokon …

Journal of Disaster Research, 12(2) 259-271, Mar, 2017
Object-Based Building Damage Assessment Methodology Using Only Post Event ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Dual Polarimetric SAR Intensity Images

Yanbing Bai, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba 468-1, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0845, Japan, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Hideomi Gokon …

Journal of Disaster Research, 12(2) 259-271, Mar, 2017
Tsunami source of the Mw7 2016 Fukushima Earthquake inferred from tide gauge and GPS buoy records

ADRIANO Bruno, FURUYA Takasi, MAS Erick, KOSHIMURA Shunichi

日本地球惑星科学連合大会予稿集(Web), 2017 ROMBUNNO.HDS12‐P09 (WEB ONLY), 2017
Building Damage Assessment in the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Using Only Post-Event Dual Polarization Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

Bai Yanbing, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Earthquake Spectra, 33(Special issue 1), 2017
Understanding the Extreme Tsunami Inundation in Onagawa Town by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, Its Effects in Urban Structures and Coastal Facilities

Bruno Adriano, Satomi Hayashi, Hideomi Gokon, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Coastal Engineering Journal, 58(04) 1640013-1640013, 2016
Understanding the Extreme Tsunami Inundation in Onagawa Town by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, Its Effects in Urban Structures and Coastal Facilities

Bruno Adriano, Satomi Hayashi, Hideomi Gokon, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

Coastal Engineering Journal, 58(04) 1640013-1640013, 2016
A Decade After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Progress in Disaster Preparedness and Future Challenges in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Maldives

Anawat Suppasri, Kazuhisa Goto, Abdul Muhari, Prasanthi Ranasinghe, Mahmood Riyaz, Muzailin Affan, Erick Mas, Mari Yasuda, Fumihiko Imamura

PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 172(12) 3313-3341, Dec, 2015
Storm surge mapping of typhoon Haiyan and its impact in Tanauan, Leyte, Philippines

Carine J. Yi, Anawat Suppasri, Shuichi Kure, Jeremy D. Bricker, Erick Mas, Maritess Quimpo, Mari Yasuda

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, 13 207-214, Sep, 2015
Recent Advances in Agent-Based Tsunami Evacuation Simulations: Case Studies in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru

Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Fumihiko Imamura, Anawat Suppasri, Abdul Muhari, Bruno Adriano

Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172(12) 3409-3424, May, 2015
TSUNAMI EVACUATION PLANNING AND RESPONSE SUPPORTED BY SIMULATION TOOLS

MAS Erick, ADRIANO Bruno, KOSHIMURA Shunichi

日本地震工学会年次大会梗概集(CD-ROM), 11th ROMBUNNO.B-6, 2015
Reconstruction process and social issues after the 1746 earthquake and tsunami in Peru: Past and present challenges after tsunami events

Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, Julio Kuroiwa Horiuchi, Shunichi Koshimura

Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 44 97-109, 2015
Field survey report and satellite image interpretation of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

Mas, E., Bricker, J., Kure, S., Adriano, B., Yi, C., Suppasri, A., Koshimura, S.

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 15(4) 805-816, 2015

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