An ILP and simulation model to optimize search and rescue helicopter operations

Ambulance helicopter contribution to search and rescue in North Norway

BACKGROUND Search and rescue (SAR) operations constitute a significant proportion of Norwegian ambulance helicopter missions, and they may limit the service's capacity for medical operations. We compared the relative contribution of the different helicopter resources using a common definition of SAR-operation in order to investigate how the SAR workload had changed over the last years. METHOD...

An Agent-based System for Maritime Search and Rescue Operations

Maritime search and rescue operations are critical missions involving personnel, boats, helicopter, aircrafts in a struggle against time often worsened by adversary sea and weather conditions. In such a context, telecommunication and information systems may play a crucial role sometimes concurring to successfully accomplish the mission. In this paper we present an application able to localize t...

Terrain Classification for Autonomous RMAX Helicopter Search and Rescue

Applying Volunteer MapReduce Platform to Assist Search and Rescue Operations

Presented case study is based on application of the previously designed volunteer peer-to-peer MapReduce computing platform to assist evacuation of people who are disoriented in a forest that is affected by wildfire. Problem solution requires extensive use of features which are built into mobile devices in such a way, that computing not only become execution device, but also interface and data ...

Strategies to improve sleep during extended search and rescue operations.

OBJECTIVE This study investigated strategies to improve sleeping conditions during search and rescue operations during disaster response. METHODS Forty members of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Urban Search and Rescue Team were surveyed for individual sleep habits and sleeping aids used during extended deployments. Team members were also asked to suggest methods to improve sleep on future d...