Forest fires are caused naturally by lightning, high atmospheric temperatures, and dryness.
Forest fires have ramifications for both climatic conditions and anthropogenic ecosystems …

Given that ground stationary infrastructures for traffic monitoring are barely able to handle
everyday traffic volumes, there is a risk that they could fail altogether in situations arising …

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing has been widely used in
emergency scenarios; the operating mode has transitioned from one UAV to multiple UAVs …

In crises, the actors and teams which constitute the response organization have to perceive,
produce, and share situational information efficiently. This need can be supported through …

A new expectation maximization (EM) algorithm for time-critical supervised classification
tasks in remote sensing is proposed. Compared to standard EM and other approaches, it …

Abstract Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)(also referred to as Unmanned Aerial Systems
(UAS), Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), or drones) operations, focused on natural …

When facing a specific emergent geographical environment observation task (GeoTask),
people need to be able to handle reliable and comprehensive disaster information in the …

US cities prioritize the storage of automobiles over the safe movement of bicycles. While this
generally occurs by allocating street curbs for car parking instead of bike lanes, the …

Purpose–After the occurrence of a disaster, emergency supplies should arrive at disaster
area in the shortest possible time. Therefore, it is of pivotal importance to speed up the …

In the VABENE++ project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), powerful tools are being
developed to aid public authorities and organizations with security responsibilities as well as …