Crushing and Separating Technologies for Disaster Wastes

Situational Awareness Technologies for Disaster Response

Responding to natural or man-made disasters, in a timely and effective manner, can reduce deaths and injuries, contain or prevent secondary disasters, and reduce the resulting economic losses and social disruption. During a crisis, responding organizations confront grave uncertainties in making critical decisions. They need to gather situational information (e.g., state of the civil, transporta...

Agent Technologies for Post-Disaster Urban Planning

Urban planning is a complex decision making process which must compensate for the various interests of multiple stakeholders with respect to physical, social, and economic constraints. Despite growing interest in using A.I. in urban design and planning this community remains a field dominated by human experts. Recent catastrophic disasters such as hurricane Katrina, however, have underscored th...

Separating Signal from Noise: Evaluating Emerging Technologies

Development of Crushing and Sieving Technologies for Use in Sample Preperation in Mars Exploration

Introduction: Subsurface investigation is one of the fundamental aspects of exterrestrial exploration. [2] Two general methods of studying the subsurface include in situ instrumentation and remote sample evaluation. This research investigates methods to crush core samples and prepare them for in remote analysis. Specifically, this research develops methods to comminute a core sample or regolith...

Open technologies for monitoring systems aimed at disaster risk reduction

This research is spearheading the integration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Source Hardware (OSHW) in the field of agri-meteorology applications to disaster risk reduction, flood and droughts. A Do-It-Yourself weather station based on OSHW standards has been developed from local sources in Sri Lanka, reporting by SMS to tank/reservoir managers when rainfall is higher than 10m...