← Corey Scher

I develop scientific methods and datasets to help better understand, respond to, and recover from the physical impacts of armed conflict and disaster.

With Conflict Ecology at Oregon State, I run an open-source building damage assessment program. Our deliverables have supported urban search and rescue operations and informed journalism and humanitarian work, in addition to international legal proceedings.

I earned a PhD from the City University of New York in 2025, using interferometric synthetic aperture radar to study physical impacts of armed conflict. I now develop automated change detection methods that use satellite data for crisis and humanitarian response, mainly focused on mapping building damage in conflict and disaster settings.

Network decorrelation map over Lebanon, February 2026
Multitemporal Sentinel-1 InSAR coherence over Lebanon. False-color RGB encodes three parameters of a seasonal coherence model, visualized so the result reads roughly like optical imagery. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-1 data.