A comprehensive survey of research towards AI-enabled unmanned aerial systems in pre-, active-, and post-wildfire management

SPH Boroujeni, A Razi, S Khoshdel, F Afghah… - Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires have emerged as one of the most destructive natural disasters worldwide, causing
catastrophic losses. These losses have underscored the urgent need to improve public …

AI-Based Drone Assisted Human Rescue in Disaster Environments: Challenges and Opportunities

N Papyan, M Kulhandjian, H Kulhandjian… - Pattern Recognition and …, 2024 - Springer
In this survey we are focusing on utilizing drone-based systems for the detection of
individuals, particularly by identifying human screams and other distress signals. This study …

Active Learning for Single-Stage Object Detection in UAV Images

A Yamani, A Alyami, H Luqman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for image acquisition in various
applications, and object detection is a crucial task for UAV imagery analysis. However …

An attention-based dual-encoding network for fire flame detection using optical remote sensing

S Kong, J Deng, L Yang, Y Liu - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Automatic extraction of flame area plays an important role in forest fire detection, which can
accurately understand the spatial distribution and development trend of forest fire, so as to …

Drone-based Bug Detection in Orchards with Nets: A Novel Orienteering Approach

F Betti Sorbelli, F Coró, SK Das, L Palazzetti… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The use of drones for collecting information and detecting bugs in orchards covered by nets
is a challenging problem. The nets help in reducing pest damage, but they also constrain the …

[HTML][HTML] Management of a post-disaster emergency scenario through unmanned aerial vehicles: Multi-Depot Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing with Total Completion Time …

T Calamoneri, F Corò, S Mancini - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the most valuable and promising applications for Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
is in natural disaster management, where these aircraft can operate autonomously without …

Reinforcement learning-based differential evolution algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization problems

X Yu, P Xu, F Wang, X Wang - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many real-world problems can be established as Constrained Multi-objective Optimization
Problems (CMOPs). It is still challenging to automatically set efficient parameters for …

[HTML][HTML] Trajectory-Aware Offloading Decision in UAV-Aided Edge Computing: A Comprehensive Survey

T Baidya, A Nabi, S Moh - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recently, the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with edge computing has
emerged as a promising paradigm for providing computational support for Internet of Things …

Interference-Aware Multi-Hop Routing in UAV Networks: A Harmonic Function-Based Potential Field Approach

H Liu, Z Yang, N Zhao, Y Gu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-hop packet routing is critical for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks to enable
efficient communication between terminals in diverse environments. However, the …

Multi-Objective MDP-based Routing In UAV Networks For Search-based Operations

P Mahajan, P Balamurugan, A Kumar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems have gained widespread recognition due to their
versatility and autonomy. Their deployment for disaster mitigation and management …