First Responders' Localization and Health Monitoring During Rescue Operations

RFID-Assisted Localization and Communication for First Responders

Remote Physiological Health and Status Monitoring of First Responders: Promises, Practicalities and Prospects

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...

Speech-based location estimation of first responders in a simulated search and rescue scenario

In our research, we explore possible solutions for extracting valuable information about first responders’ (FR) location from speech communication channels during crisis response. Finegrained identification of fundamental units of meaning (e. g. sentences, named entities and dialogue acts) is sensitive to high error rate in automatic transcriptions of noisy speech. However, looking from a topic...

Monitoring and assessment of pollutants resulting from bench-blasting operations

Nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide gases together with dust are known as the major pollutants arising during the blasting operations using the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) explosive at the Sungun surface mine, located in the northwest of Iran. The pollutants were monitored during some blasting operations at the mine. It was concluded that the gases and dust clouds initially went up to the ...