Search & Rescue Emergency Response
Thematic Working Group A: Search and Rescue (SAR) and Emergency Medical Response (EMR)
Objectives
- exchanging views across borders,
- analysing the gaps in the tools they need to operate
- prioritising future R&D efforts
Main areas
Specific challenges for SAR include skills and capacities of localisation, stabilisation, evacuation in all terrains (water, mountains, remote and non-accessible areas) and all contexts (transportation accidents, disasters, etc.).
In EMR – for the same range of contexts and terrains – challenges include triage, trauma and life support, decontamination of people, large number of victim s’ management (mass rescue organisation, field hospitals), transport to safe areas (ground and air transport), fatalities management.
The thematic is transverse and not specific to a certain context. It concerns first responders and rescuers, as well as medical and ambulance services or civil defence units.
Useful link
No Fear project: http://no-fearproject.eu/ (Network Of practitioners For Emergency medicAl systems and cRitical care)
Download the "Policy Brief Search and Rescue and Emergency Medical Response" produced by the TWG leaders, in coordination with other partners and associated experts
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Best practices, doctrine, lessons learned
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GUIDE FOR CORONAVIRUS PLANNING & RESPONSE
IAFC Guide for Coronavirus Planning and Response The 2019 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is creating a rapidly changing environment for public safety agencies. This is a dynamic event that will likely stretch out for months. As a result, recommendations...
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Guidelines to increase the benefit of social media in emergencies
The EmerGent project summarised its findings and conclusions in the form of guidelines and provides a list of recommendations for emergency services and citizens on how to make the most of social media.
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ORGANISATION DE LA RÉPONSE SANITAIRE
L’objectif principal est de s’adapter aux risques et de limiter les brassages et les échanges au sein du Service: Activation d’une cellule de veille « Coronavirus » Rappels des consignes en matière de prévention et d’hygiène individuelle et collective...
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Flash info covid 19 - french content
La réorganisation du SDIS qui vise à inscrire notre capacité opérationnelle dans la durée pour fournir un service public de qualité et un niveau de protection aux agents optimal est aujourd’hui en place. Ainsi une distribution de masques chirurgicau...
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Mocking Disasters with NIMS: Global Disaster Policy
The United States has created the National Incident Management System (NIMS), a template that is used as a national model for natural and man-made disasters. It is a proactive guide to authorize disaster responders to seamlessly address all of the theoret...
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COPE (Common Operational Picture Exploitation)
integrate COTS solutions and novel technologies to achieve a step change in information flow both from and to the first responder in order to increase situational awareness across agencies and at all levels of the command chain he project will realise an...
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EASeR (Enhancing Assessment in Search and Rescue)
identify all the relevant elements to overcome USAR assessment problems and to enhance response capacity in a complex emergency scenario due to catastrophes (i.e. earthquake).
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COSMIC (The COntribution of Social Media In Crisis management)
identify the most effective ways to utilise new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in crisis situations for the protection of ordinary citizens
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MEDI@4Sec: Understanding of the opportunities, challenges and ethical consideration of social media use for public security
Understanding of the opportunities, challenges and ethical consideration of social media use for public security
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FORETRESS (Foresight Tools for Responding to cascading effects in a crisis)
a) foresight tool to assist decision-makers in understanding the potential effects of their decisions in training environments b) decision support tool that is user-friendly enough to be employed during a crisis to assist real-time decision making
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CRISMA (Modelling crisis management for improved action and preparedness)
The CRISMA project developed a simulation-based decision support system, for modelling crisis management, improved action and preparedness. The CRISMA System facilitates simulation and modelling of realistic crisis scenarios, possible response actions, an...
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SAYSO project (Standardization of Situational Awareness sYstems to Strengthen Operations in civil protection)
situational awareness systems for multiple stakeholders: roadmap and reference architecture
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TACTIC project (Tools, methods And training for CommuniTIes and Society to better prepare for a Crisis)
The overall aim of the TACTIC project is to increase preparedness to large-scale and cross-border disasters amongst communities and societies in Europe. To achieve this, TACTIC will consider studies on risk perception and preparedness (including good prac...
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Mappe degli effetti
Feedback from the affected population after an earthquake: www.haisentitoilterremoto.it this can be an exemple on how to prepare similar platforms for feedback from population in other types of risk.
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HEIMDALL: enhance cooperation and inter-organisational coordination
Solutions to enhance cooperation and inter-organisational coordination, based on technologies already existing or currently under development
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IN-PREP: Transboundary training platform
Transboundary training platform: addresses responders from different agencies and countries as it enables them to simulate future scenarios and practice together; training formats which will be applied across agencies and countries so that collaboration e...
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IDIRA (Interoperability of data and procedures in large-scale multinational disaster response actions)
This core result of IDIRA will take the form an architectural framework and an exemplary implementation of a Mobile Integrated Command and Control Structure supporting co-ordinated large-scale disaster management.
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C2-Sense (Interoperability Profiles for Command/Control Systems and Sensor Systems in Emergency Management)
C2-SENSE project’s main objective is to develop a profile based Emergency Interoperability Framework by the use of existing standards and semantically enriched Web services to expose the functionalities of C2 Systems, Sensor Systems and other emergency/cr...
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SecInCoRe (Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory)
The overall objective of SecInCoRe (Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory) is to identify data sets, processes, information systems and business models used by first resp...
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EPISECC project (Collaborative Project which will Establish a Pan-European Information Space to Enhance seCurity of Citizens)
The project EPISECC is aiming at developing a concept of a common “European Information Space”. This information space is dedicated to become the key element in a future integrated pan-European crisis and disaster response capacity. Besides the developmen...
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SAYSO project (Standardization of Situational Awareness sYstems to Strengthen Operations in civil protection)
situational awareness systems for multiple stakeholders: roadmap and reference architecture
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SECTOR project (Secure European Common Information Space for the Interoperability of First Responders and Police Authorities)
flexible Common Information Space concept that provides users with “peer-to-peer” type functionalities to dynamically set-up cross-agency collaborative platforms and information spaces, for information and resource sharing across agencies and across borde...
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COBACORE
Close the collaboration gaps between stakeholders involved in post-crisis recovery, especially with regard to local communities
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EVAPREM (Developing an evaluation model to assess prevention measures)
develop a universal and comprehensive model for evaluating the results of prevention measures implemented by the rescue boards of European countries.
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Publication
Research - Building local level engagement in disaster risk reduction. A Portugese case study
Purpose - Contributing to the global dialogue on disaster risk reduction (DRR), the purpose of this paper is to address a key priority for the Post-2015 Framework for DRR (HFA2) by analysing initiatives used by one local government to increase local-leve...
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Renforcons notre resilience
Dr Sylvie Molenda, Centre National de Ressources et de Résilience, France La résilience c’est la capacité à s’adapter et à rebondir en période d’adversité. Et donc à traverser une épreuve avec le plus d’adaptabilité possible. Les études montrent que la r...
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XENIOS
Tourism is a major driver of economic growth in Greece. Therefore, great attention and effort are required to offer quality services to visitors/tourists who should feel safe and relaxed when visiting tourist areas. A positive experience for tourists begi...
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Burnside-Lawry, Judy; Carvalho, Luis (2015): Building local level engagement in disaster risk reduction. A Portugese case study. In: Disaster Preve...
Contributing to the global dialogue on disaster risk reduction (DRR), the purpose of this paper is to address a key priority for the Post-2015 Framework for DRR (HFA2) by analysing initiatives used by one local government to increase local-level engagemen...
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DITSEF (Digital and Innovative Technologies for Security and Efficiency of First Responders operation)
Self organising robust ad-hoc communications where the existing infrastructure may be compromised, allowing communication between the First Responders and between them and their command level. - Accurate novel 3D positioning in indoor environments. - S...
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HELIOS (Second Generation Beacon for GALILEO/EGNOS EGNSS Search And Rescue applications)
Innovative aviation, maritime and outdoor search and rescue distress beacons
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Asymmetric synchronous collaboration within distributed teams
Teams performing physical tasks must often be distributed in space, and are often organized hierarchically. This means that systems to support collaboration between members must account for the asymmetry in physical environment, organizational roles, and...
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Disaster management, crowdsourced R&D and probabilistic innovation theory
General agreement exists effective disaster management faces constraints related to knowledge sharing and a need for real-time research responses. Extreme case examples of disasters especially vulnerable to these challenges are global pandemics, or diseas...
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'It'll never happen to me'
Following the severe flood events of 1998 and 2000, the United Kingdom's Environment Agency prioritised the need to increase public flood risk awareness. Drawing on data collected during research undertaken for the Environment Agency, this paper cont...
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E-Government Challenge in Disaster Evacuation Response
While geographic information systems (GIS) can provide information on the static locations of critical infrastructure and evacuation routes, they do not provide the dynamically changing locations of things and people on the move. In contrast, radio freque...
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Citizen Communications in Crisis
Recent world-wide crisis events have drawn new attention to the role information communication technology (ICT) can play in warning and response activities. Drawing on disaster social science, we consider a critical aspect of post-impact disaster response...
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Twitter Floods when it Rains
Twitter is one of the most prominent social media platforms nowadays. A primary reason that has brought the medium at the spotlight of academic attention is its real-time nature, with people constantly uploading information regarding their surroundings. T...
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Information sharing in interteam responses to disaster
Research demonstrates that information sharing is facilitated by familiarity, and having a common understanding of problems, use of lexicon, and semantic meaning. These factors can be difficult to develop within extreme environments such as disasters as m...
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Public Organization Adaptation to Extreme Events
The study responds to the growing call for a more systematic approach to research on organizational responses to extreme events. It develops and tests an integrated framework based on the organizational adaptation and learning theory to shed light on how...
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Site management of health issues in the 2001 World Trade Center disaster
The terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center led to the greatest loss of life from a criminal incident in the history of the United States. There were 2,801 persons killed or missing at the disaster site, including 147 dead on two hijacked aircraft...
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What Have We Learned since September 11, 2001? A Network Study of the Boston Marathon Bombings Response
In light of recent disasters, it is evident that more research is needed to understand how organizations can effectively coordinate disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. This research assesses the effectiveness of interorganiz...
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E-Government Challenge in Disaster Evacuation Response
While geographic information systems (GIS) can provide information on the static locations of critical infrastructure and evacuation routes, they do not provide the dynamically changing locations of things and people on the move. In contrast, radio freque...
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Crisis Management Training
Crises occur seldom, but when they occur they have high impact on the enclosing organization and its stakeholders. Examples are plane crashes, train incidents and bomb threats, but the types of crises are virtually endless. We report on research of early...
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What Have We Learned since September 11, 2001? A Network Study of the Boston Marathon Bombings Response
In light of recent disasters, it is evident that more research is needed to understand how organizations can effectively coordinate disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. This research assesses the effectiveness of interorganiz...
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Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies
How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for - or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cop...
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Citizen Communications in Crisis
Recent world-wide crisis events have drawn new attention to the role information communication technology (ICT) can play in warning and response activities. Drawing on disaster social science, we consider a critical aspect of post-impact disaster response...
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Integrating nowcasting with crisis management and risk prevention in a transnational and interdisciplinary framework
This paper presents the recent WWRP/WMO Forecast Demonstration Project INCA-CE (INtegrating now-CAsting for Central Europe) co-funded by the European Union. Twenty-four partners of national and regional hydro-meteorological services, national and regional...
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Site management of health issues in the 2001 World Trade Center disaster
The terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center led to the greatest loss of life from a criminal incident in the history of the United States. There were 2,801 persons killed or missing at the disaster site, including 147 dead on two hijacked aircraft...
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SUSTAINING NETWORKS IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT A Study of Counties in the United States
The increasing scope and severity of disasters has led to the wide adoption of collaborative practices through networks in the field of emergency management. Networks are most effective when they can be sustained over time. This study develops a model of...
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Preparing for complex interdependent risks
The uncertainty posed by natural and human-made disasters arises from both known risks and a range of unforeseeable risks, some of which may be novel, not having been observed before. These interconnected risks may evolve over short periods of time and ma...
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Technological innovation
SAPI - système de surveillance et d’alerte du personnel
Le système permet de signaler à l’instant en temps réel, tout véhicule entrant dans la zone de sécurité. Ce système est constitué d’une caméra fixée à l’arrière du VSR et d’une lampe stroboscopique, d’un logiciel de traitement de l’image sur un PC embarqu...
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First responders flow simulation
ONHYS has developed a cutting-edge behavioral simulator named ONHYS ONE®. This simulator incorporates Building information Modeling (BIM) technology along with spatial processing algorithms that makes it capable of using standard 3D mockups for simulation...
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Raybird 3 Fixed-wing Drone / Autonomous Swarm-Unmanned Aerial System
Please see attached brochure for technical spec. We have tailored our system to suit your industry and works in tandem with the First Responders. We can pick up hotspot as small as 2m by 1 from 800 m above the ground. The drone is fully autonomous. The...
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Aerial Robotic Fire Defender Drone (ARFiDD)
ARFiDD is an innovative fire protection system against fires in open and forest areas, aiming to the detection of fire outbreaks and the support of firefighting, with emphasis on the initial fire intervention. The ARFiDD integrated solution will consist...
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SmokeD Wildfire Detector
Installation of the SmokeD detectors is straightforward. It requires finding a site with a good overview of the surrounding landscape. Detectors can be installed on roofs or chimneys of house structures, or even better on poles or towers with an unobstruc...
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White Hawk Tethered Aerostat
The White Hawk tethered aerostat solution from CNIM Air Space is composed of several elements: - The tethered aerostat, spherical, with a volume of 40m3, which can reach a flying height of 150m. - Its trailer, which brings mobility to the solution: it c...
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drone on a moving platform enabling autonomous landing and battery replacement and further flight
The drone uses a gyroscope to land on a special socket where the battery is replaced. After replacement, you can proceed to further departures.
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GIS-based Fire Hazard and Risk Assessment
Multi-layer GIS map system with specific fire hazard and risk assessment implemented in online platform. For development of the maps data are used from FIRMS (NASA), Copernicus, OpenStreetMaps, Google Maps and local information depending on local conditio...
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Identification and tracking of UAV to safe and secure operational areas/zones
We provide Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) support designated to safely manage future congested U-space traffic. Our pioneering research on WiFi and narrowband networks are promising and leads to develop UAV e-identification, localization and detect, se...
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Remote detection (form UAV) of potentially infected people
Software system (architecture, algorithms) in unmanned aerial vehicle sensors to: - detect people with higher temperature, - identification people in masks, with hidden face, - remote measurement of human temperature, - detecting clusters/groups of p...
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ENGAGE IMS/CAD (Incident Management & Computer Aided Dispatch)
ENGAGE is designed for operational use by professional organizations employing mobile resources, such as Police, Fire Departments, Rescue Services, Emergency services, Security Departments etc. ENGAGE is designed to support multi-Agency deployments permit...
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G-Sense - Earthquake Rapid Damage Assessment for Buildings
Satways Ltd recently developed the G-sense system comprising of a network of sensor nodes installed in different floors of a building measuring acceleration. The nodes include a low noise MEMS tri-axial accelerometer, a 16bit ADC, a power control (UPS) un...
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Assistant Volunteer
To address the above problems, voluntary organizations need a reliable and efficient way to screen, match and certify volunteers for actions, and a trustworthy and secure channel for vulnerable citizens to ask for help. That’s why we designed the “Assi...
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AIOSAT - Autonomous Indoor and Outdoor Safety Tracking System
In a nutshell, AIOSAT proposes a portable system which provides its position and status information (battery life, communication quality of service and any body parameter monitored, if any) to a portable application held by the brigade leader and a PC bas...
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PROFITEX (Providing Fire Fighters with Technology for Excellent Work Safety)
system that supplies mission-relevant information without overwhelming the fire fighter The ProFiTex system comprises electronic devices like an infrared camera, localisation sensors and a human-computer interface device integrated into the fire fighters...
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SAT406CM: physiological monitoring application
enhanced communication capability to serve different applications, yet in the scope of this project, one specific application is developed: monitoring the PLB user’s physiological status and reporting that to the Rescue Coordination Center (RCC).
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INDIGO (Innovative Training & Decision Support for Emergency operations)
innovative system integrating the latest advances in Virtual Reality, Simulation and Artificial Intelligence in order to homogenise and enhance both the operational preparedness and the management of an actual complex crisis
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DITAC (Disaster Training Curriculum)
holistic and highly structured curriculum for first responders and strategic crisis managers that are tasked in dealing with disasters on a national and international scale. The curriculum will tackle dynamic challenges facing disaster incident managers i...
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CRISIS (CRitical Incident management training System using an Interactive Simulation environment)
next generation, advanced video game style interactive simulation training system developed to help emergency service personnel and commanders prepare for crisis scenarios such as train and plane crashes, and terrorist attacks
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L4S (Learning 4 Security)
"L4S project exploits the reality and the needs of organizations to help their managers and personnel in order to develop key skills and competencies in crisis management area through an innovative, highly involving, effective and easy deployable lif...
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E2mC Project
E2mC (Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services) project aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of the integration of social media analysis and crowd-sourced information within both the Mapping and Early Warning Components of Cop...
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PEP (Public Empowerment Policies for Crisis Management)
best practices in a community approach to crisis resilience, and gives directions for future research and implementation, including the use of social media and mobile services
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vieWTerra Evolution
vieWTerra Evolution, vieWTerra Mobile and vieWTerra Base form a combined “GIS & Simulation” suite of products allowing responders to rapidly build a virtual 4D representation (3D synthetic environment+ Time dimension) of any potential Crisis area on...
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The SARUAV system for detecting lost persons in aerial imagery acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles
The SARUAV app works on a high-performance laptop. The user is provided with two software modules. The first one performs modelling of where a lost person might walk to, suggesting where a drone should operate. The second module aims to automatically dete...
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