Natural disasters affect millions of people every year. Finding missing persons in the
shortest possible time is of crucial importance to reduce the death toll. This task is especially …

Natural and human-made disasters have dramatically increased in recent decades. Given
the strong relationship between first responders' localization time and the final number of …

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS/Drones) are great resources for search and rescue (SAR)
operations as they allow for remote examination of vast areas. This paper presents a smart …

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted ground targets localization is widely
used in search and rescue (SAR) scenes. In this article, we propose a UAV search and …

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have been developed and adopted for various fields
including military, IT, agriculture, construction, and so on. In particular, UAVs are being …

Robot-assisted natural disaster management is recently employed to aid human rescuers at
diverse disaster sites. Due to its compactness and availability, drone has become an …

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 research focuses on the implementation of a human detection and geolocation system
using aerial drones to complement search and rescue. The study includes the …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered one of the most promising emerging
technologies to support rescue teams in disaster management and relief operations …

The increasing number and severity of natural hazard events in recent years, and their
devastating impact on human life, local economies, and the built environment has called …