Unmanned Aerial Systems

Chapter 6: Disaster management using unmanned aerial vehicles

Jibin Rajan^a; Sachin Shriwastav^b; Abhishek Kashyap^c; Ashwini Ratnoo^d; Debasish Ghose^d    aNVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, United States^bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States^cDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States^dDepartment of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Abstract

Effective disaster management is one of the most important challenges faced on the global scale. The inaccessibility of large parts of terrain despite the urgent need of support immediately following a disaster poses one of the major ...