Blockchain-Assisted UAV-Employed Casualty Detection Scheme in Search and Rescue Mission in the Internet of Battlefield Things

Several aircraft types are commonly used to perform many search and rescue missions throughout the world. Aircraft have been used because they are able to offer a bird’s eye view of the surrounding search areas. In general, these aircraft come in various shapes, sizes and weights, and have myriad capabilities in carrying rescued and/or injured personnel and also equipment for the search and medical operations during the search and rescue sorties. For an aircraft, takeoff gross weight is important because it will affect the flying performance of the aircraft. To perform an effective search and rescue mission, the right selection of aircraft is essential such that unnecessary resources are not being wasted. In line with this notion, this study examines the distribution of the maximum takeoff gross weight of aircraft that have been typically used in search and rescue sorties. This knowledge will help in the design of future aircraft for such missions and also narrowing the selection of existing aircraft to be used on that kind of operations. It is found from the data analysis that most current operators have been using medium-haul aircraft that have a takeoff gross weight between 4,301 kg and 8,600 kg.

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Using the Web While Offline

Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering - Handbook of Research on Contemporary Perspectives on Web-Based Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5384-7.ch006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 108-124

Author(s):

Stuart Dillon ◽

Karyn Rastrick ◽

Florian Stahl ◽

Gottfried Vossen

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Search And Rescue ◽

Use Cases ◽

Smart Device ◽

The Internet ◽

Geographic Remoteness ◽

The Web

Whilst access to the internet is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in highly populated, urban areas, for much of the planet web connectively is still largely absent. This is mainly due to geographic remoteness, but bad connectivity or governmental controls might also prevent web users from accessing desired resources. The authors have previously outlined a general approach to cope with such situations, which they termed “Web in your Pocket” (WiPo). WiPo assumes that the user has a smart device to which appropriate data, ideally in curated form, can be pre-loaded so that it remains accessible offline. In this chapter, the authors present the potential usability of WiPo by considering three important use-cases (tourism, health, and search and rescue) demonstrating the vast potential of WiPo. The chapter concludes by considering the practical issues that need to be overcome before it might be implemented in real-world situations.

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Integration of the Target Position Correction Software with the High Endurance Quadcopter for Search and Rescue Mission

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.764-765.713 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 764-765 ◽

pp. 713-717 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jie Tong Zou ◽

Zheng Yan Pan ◽

Dong Lin Zhang ◽

Rui Feng Zheng

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽

Target Position ◽

Search And Rescue ◽

Pollution Monitoring ◽

Rescue Mission ◽

Aerial Photos ◽

Air Pollution Monitoring ◽

Position Correction ◽

Aerial Vehicle

An Unmanned Aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. In recent years, some UAVs are deployed for civil applications, such as policing, firefighting, air pollution monitoring, and aerial search and rescue, etc. Unmanned Aerial vehicle generally include fixed-wing and multi-rotor aircrafts. This research had developed a high endurance quadcopter for search and rescue mission. Target position correction software also was developed in this research. This program uses GPS coordinates embedded in the EXIF information of the aerial photos and more accurately calculates the target’s position. The target’s position error is less than ten meters in 75 meters altitude. Keywords: target position correction software, search and rescue, UAV, quadcopter, and GPS.

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