Historical Image Analysis with Machine Learning: An evaluation of the WWII Tokyo air raid damages

• In Event: Studying Politics Using Novel Data

Brief Overview

"Image as data" is an emerging paradigm in political science. This paper introduces the geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) techniques to explore the historical micro-geography of wartime violence in the firebombing of Tokyo in WWII.

Authors

• Gaku Ito, Hiroshima University

• Masataka Harada, Fukuoka University