A wireless sensor network is liable to suffer faults for several reasons, which include faulty
nodes or even the fact that nodes have been destroyed by a natural disaster, such as a …

This work identifies the role of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV) in the context of natural disaster management. Main applications of systems …

Large-scale natural disasters test the most fundamental human instinct of survival by
inflicting massive, and often unpredictable loss to life and property. Various types of natural …

This chapter highlights the communication and network technologies that contribute to UAV
disaster management systems, surveys the latest development of UAV-assisted disaster …

Abstract “Natural disasters threaten human life, Earth's ecosystems, and countries'
economies. In the last two decades, the number and severity of natural disasters has …

This article presents a vision for future unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted disaster
management, considering the holistic functions of disaster prediction, assessment, and …

The fast-paced development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and their use in different
domains, opens a new paradigm on their use in natural disaster management. In UAV …

Technological advancements in communications and embedded systems have led to the
proliferation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in a wide variety of application domains …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have wide variety of applications and provide limitless
future potentials. Nodes in WSNs are prone to be failure due to energy depletion, hardware …

This chapter provides a framework of the methodical steps and considerations required
when designing and deploying a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to a given application. A …