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Georgios Vosinakis, Maria Krommyda, Angelos Stamou, Nikos Mitro, Marios Palazis-Aslanidis, Katerina Voulgary, Spyros Athanasiadis and Angelos Amditis
Search and rescue operations can range from small, confined spaces, such as collapsed buildings, to large area searches during missing person operations. K9 units are tasked with intervening in such emergencies and assist in the optimal way to ensure a s...
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Alaina Herrington and Joseph Tacy
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Curtis Harris, Kelli McCarthy, E. Liang Liu, Kelly Klein, Raymond Swienton, Parker Prins and Tawny Waltz
2017 was a record year for disasters and disaster response in the U.S. Redefining and differentiating key response roles like ?immediate responders? and ?first responders? is critical. Traditional first responders are not and cannot remain the only cadre...
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Shannon C. Killip, Natalie K. R. Kwong, Joy C. MacDermid, Amber J. Fletcher and Nicholas R. Carleton
Firefighters appear at an increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Because of PTSD-related stigma, firefighters may search for information online. The current study evaluated the quality, readability, and completeness of PTSD online reso...
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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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João Boné, João C. Ferreira, Ricardo Ribeiro and Gonçalo Cadete
This paper presents DisBot, the first Portuguese speaking chatbot that uses social media retrieved knowledge to support citizens and first-responders in disaster scenarios, in order to improve community resilience and decision-making. It was developed an...
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Erdem Emin Maras, Kadir Dönmez and Yeliz Emecen
First responders to forest fires, especially in areas that cannot be reached by land, are carried out by helicopters. In large forest lands, the necessity of helicopters to reach fire areas in the shortest time reveals the importance of heliport location...
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Yuval Hadas, Avi Tillman, Tova Rosenbloom, Riccardo Rossi, Massimiliano Gastaldi
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Driver fatigue is one of the major contributors to road accidents. In this study, we refer to task-related fatigue, in contrast to sleep-related fatigue. Sleep-related fatigue decrements in driving performance are related to the circadian rhythm, sleep d...
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Paloma Díaz, John M. Carroll and Ignacio Aedo
Social and mobile computing open up new possibilities for integrating citizens? information, knowledge, and social capital in emergency management (EM). This participation can improve the capacity of local agencies to respond to unexpected events by invo...
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Jerry D. Gibson
Speech compression is a key technology underlying digital cellular communications, VoIP, voicemail, and voice response systems. We trace the evolution of speech coding based on the linear prediction model, highlight the key milestones in speech coding, a...
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Andrew Marx, Yu-Hsi Chou, Kevin Mercy and Richard Windisch
The availability and precision of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) permit the repeated collection of very-high quality three-dimensional (3D) data to monitor high-interest areas, such as dams, urban areas, or erosion-prone coastlines. However, challenges ex...
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Qing Han
Emergency rescues require that first responders provide support to evacuate injured and other civilians who are obstructed by the hazards. In this case, the emergency personnel can take actions strategically in order to rescue people maximally, efficient...
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George Loukas, Diane Gan and Tuan Vuong
Emergency planners, first responders and relief workers increasingly rely on computational and communication systems that support all aspects of emergency management, from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery. Failure of these systems, wh...
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Kevin J. Wienhold, Dongfeng Li, Wenzhao Li and Zheng N. Fang
The identification of flood hazards during emerging public safety crises such as hurricanes or flash floods is an invaluable tool for first responders and managers yet remains out of reach in any comprehensive sense when using traditional remote-sensing ...
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Glen Morris, Shawn Ehlers and John Shutske
Agricultural biosecurity is a pressing global issue that must be given continuous attention by researchers, producers, consumers, and government agencies responsible for food security. This article examines the relevant literature specifically related to...
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Zheye Wang, Nina S. N. Lam, Mingxuan Sun, Xiao Huang, Jin Shang, Lei Zou, Yue Wu and Volodymyr V. Mihunov
Hurricane Harvey in 2017 marked an important transition where many disaster victims used social media rather than the overloaded 911 system to seek rescue. This article presents a machine-learning-based detector of rescue requests from Harvey-related Twi...
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Yalong Pi, Xinyue Ye, Nick Duffield and on behalf of the Microsoft AI for Humanitarian Action Group
The winter storm Uri that occurred in February 2021 affected many regions in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The State of Texas was severely impacted due to the failure in the electricity supply infrastructure compounded by its limited connectivit...
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Yuncheng Jiang, Aifeng Lv, Zhigang Yan and Zhen Yang
Rapid urban expansion has brought new challenges to firefighting, with the speed of firefighting rescue being crucial for the safety of property and life. Thus, fire prevention and rescuing people in distress have become more challenging for city manager...
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Norman Kerle, Francesco Nex, Markus Gerke, Diogo Duarte and Anand Vetrivel
Structural disaster damage detection and characterization is one of the oldest remote sensing challenges, and the utility of virtually every type of active and passive sensor deployed on various air- and spaceborne platforms has been assessed. The prolif...
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Mohammad Tariq Meeran, Paul Annus, Muhammad Mahtab Alam and Yannick Le Moullec
The main focus of this research article is the evaluation of selected voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) solutions in wireless mesh network (WMN) scenarios. While WMNs have self-healing, self-forming, and dynamic topology features, they still pose chall...
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