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As one important part of post-earthquake loss assessment, building damage detection has important significance for understanding the disaster in time, implementing the emergency response, and post-disaster reconstructing. In recent years the development of the multi-platform remote sensing and the high-resolution remote sensing technology have provided opportunities to building damage detection with high accuracy. In this paper， firstly，the basic building damage characteristics and the concrete classification criteria are introduced. Then，the common damage detection methods at home and abroad based on the remote sensing technology are concluded，including the single-temporal image detection of the post-earthquake, the change detection between the pre-earthquake and the post-earthquake images，and the damage detection based on the multi-sources data. Limitations and drawbacks of these methods are proposed. Finally, combining with some cutting-edge technologies in remote sensing domain，the latest research progress of building damage detection based on the high-resolution remote sensing technology，synthetic aperture radar technology，light detection and ranging technology 9 and oblique aerial photography technology are summarized in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Satellite remote sensing has made great strides in the last few decades, which enables the long-term consistent observations of many variables of the terrestrial water cycle and thus advances the understanding of the terrestrial water cycle. This paper reviews the principles of remote sensing in retrieving key variables of the terrestrial water cycle, illustrates the progress of satellite remote sen-sing in hydrological applications, and discusses the future direction. Although most of hydrological states and fluxes variables are observable by remote sensing, closing terrestrial water budget with the remote sensing products is still an open question, suggesting more efforts are needed to improve the hydrological consistency of the remote sensing products. In the future, efforts should be made to develop new generation sensors and platforms for the consistent remote sensing products with finer spatiotemporal resolution. At the same time, efforts should be devoted to the evaluation of remote sen-sing products of the terrestrial water cycle through carrying out integrated field experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]