Description. The data consists of the attributes affecting seismic performance of a sample of 7,294 buildings from the San José canton in Costa Rica, Central America. Contains information about the occupancy type, number of floors, material and type of lateral load resisting system, structural regularity, floor and roof properties (following the GEM Building Taxonomy v2.0).
The attributes were identified from panoramic images of the buildings when applying remote surveys by a team of trained last-year civil engineering students supervised by civil engineers from the Seismic Engineering Laboratory of the Engineering Research Institute from the University of Costa Rica (LIS-INII-UCR). The visual data were collected on October 2017 by means of the GFZ Mobile Mapping System and the remote surveys were completed on July 2019 by means of the GFZ Remote Rapid Visual Screening platform. The sample buildings were selected by a random stratified sampling with proportional allocation applied to the building population.
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