Improving Resilience Using Drones for Effective Monitoring after Disruptive Events

Boris Shishkov, Stefan Hristozov, Alexander Verbraeck

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Abstract

We observe a world of increasing anxiety due to natural and man-made disasters, pandemics, andmilitary conflicts. Such disruptive events lead to decreased infrastructure and personnel availability; still, infrastructure and personnel are essential for keeping society running, and for addressing the effects of disruptions. We argue that drone technology could provide monitoring/logistics services that can help in addressing such needs. This paper focuses on the monitoring function whichcan provide situational awareness to decision makers after such a crisis. Drones are less dependenton nearby area infrastructure and can observe affected regions from above. Those are key advantagescompared to other solutions. Still, drones are dependent on communication services and ground operators. Therefore, we need drone solutions that are less dependent on the availability of local infrastructure and people. Several conceptual solutions to reach this independence, based on recent developments in drone technology, are explicitly discussed in the current paper and confronted with therequirements and boundary conditions posed by disruptive events. Validating such solutions in real emergency situations is left for future work.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICTRS 2020 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing
EditorsBoris Shishkov, Dimitris Mitrakos, Andon Lazarov, Marijn Janssen
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages38-43
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450377300
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event9th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing, ICTRS 2020 - Virtual, Online, Italy
Duration: 5 Oct 20206 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameICTRS 2020 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing, ICTRS 2020
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/10/206/10/20

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • disruptive events
  • drone technology
  • monitoring
  • resilience

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