Natural disasters affect thousands of people every year. In a large disaster area, search and
rescue operations can face great difficulties to locate victims. In this paper, we propose a …

The success of the wilderness search and rescue missions is highly dependent on the time
required to search for the lost person. The use of unmanned aerial systems may enhance …

We consider rescue missions in postdisaster scenarios with particularly difficult
environments where no infrastructure is available. Given the increasing popularity of …

When telecommunication infrastructure is damaged by natural disasters, creating a network
that can handle voice channels can be vital for search and rescue missions. Unmanned …

To find missing people in a remote area, we propose an autonomous unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) approach which attempts to locate the target by detecting and localising the …

When natural disasters are occurred, a lot of injured victims should be found and have
medical treatment as soon as possible. However, looking for the victims is not easy due to …

Designing a reliable, resilient, and quickly deployable emergency communication network is
a key challenge for post-disaster management. In this paper, a UAV-assisted emergency Wi …

Climate-related natural disasters have affected the lives of thousands of people. Global
warming creates warmer and drier conditions which increase the risk of wildfires. In large …

This paper presents an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) system that can find the locations of
the wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets in WiSAR (wildness search and …

Locating trapped targets using the signals of wireless devices such as mobile phones
carried by targets is increasingly becoming the preferred scheme for disaster rescue …