A survey of disaster management and SAR operations using sensors and supporting techniques

ZT AlAli, SA Alabady - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022 - Elsevier
Sensors have been an essential element in many devices, applications, and technologies,
so they were exploited for a very important goal, which is disaster management. Due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised human detection with an embedded vision system on a fully autonomous UAV for search and rescue operations

E Lygouras, N Santavas, A Taitzoglou, K Tarchanidis… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a primary role in a plethora of technical and scientific
fields owing to their wide range of applications. In particular, the provision of emergency …

Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation in underground structure inspection: A review

R Zhang, G Hao, K Zhang, Z Li - Geological Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many years after construction, a number of existing old tunnels and underground structures
are deteriorating with time as evidenced by cracks, large deformations, water leakage and …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning approach to real-time 3D path planning for autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicle

A Tullu, B Endale, A Wondosen, HY Hwang - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The need for civilian use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has drastically increased in
recent years. Their potential applications for civilian use include door-to-door package …

The pose estimation of the aircraft on the airport surface based on the contour features

D Fu, S Han, W Li, H Lin - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The pose estimation of the aircraft in the taxiing or parking state on the airport surface has
been proved helpful for the level of control and command, operation efficiency, capacity of …

[HTML][HTML] UAV landing based on the optical flow videonavigation

A Miller, B Miller, A Popov, K Stepanyan - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
An automatic landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a non-trivial task requiring a
solution of a variety of technical and computational problems. The most important is the …

[HTML][HTML] Using information content to select keypoints for UAV image matching

V Mousavi, M Varshosaz, F Remondino - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Image matching is one of the most important tasks in Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV)
photogrammetry applications. The number and distribution of extracted keypoints play an …

The role of unmanned aerial vehicle and related technologies in disasters

ZT AlAli, SA Alabady - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Technical and mechanical development over time has a great impact on human life, as
researchers are continuously working to increase facility, and comfort and add fun to …

[HTML][HTML] On AUV control with the aid of position estimation algorithms based on acoustic seabed sensing and DOA measurements

A Miller, B Miller, G Miller - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
This article discusses various approaches to the control of autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs) with the aid of different velocity-position estimation algorithms. Traditionally this field …

[HTML][HTML] Robust data fusion of uav navigation measurements with application to the landing system

K Kolosov, A Miller, B Miller - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
To perform precise approach and landing concerning an aircraft in automatic mode, local
airfield-based landing systems are used. For joint processing of measurements of the …