Sustainable development and disaster reduction are essential preconditions for each other. Natural disasters severely hamper the progress and achievements of sustainable development while, at the same time, physical infrastructure we are constructing may itself constitute a source of risk in the event of future disasters. This is particularly true in the case of earthquakes, where the majority ...

To create the final spatial information and analysis, flood hazard maps and land development priority maps and information, data for the flood events to 2009 in north of Iran were incorporated with using Geo-spatial Information System data of physiographic divisions, geologic divisions, land cover classification, elevation, drainage network, administrative districts and population density and e...

The number and intensity of floods have increased worldwide due to climate change, causing more damage, deaths and economic impacts than any other natural disaster. Coping with this type of disaster requires up-to-date, complete and accurate information about the current state of environmental variables. To make a contribution in this context, this paper proposes a crowdsourcing-based approach ...

Smog disaster is a severe global problem. Although it has been investigated for decades in environmental sciences, the analysis of smog data recently becomes an open problem in fields like big data and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we present our study of utilizing semantic reasoning techniques for accurate and explanatory smog disaster prediction. To this end, we enriched the smog da...

This paper presents design strategies of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deploy wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for post-disaster monitoring. Natural disasters are unforeseeable events which cannot be prevented. But some recovery procedures can be followed to minimize their effects. Post-disaster monitoring is important to estimate the effects of disasters, which in turn is used to det...

The recent flood disasters showed that available warning systems do not fully fulfill their requirements and potentials. This paper examines these regarding web-based and mobile GIS based flood information and warning systems. We present first prototypes that are being developed at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz for a pilot area at the Rhine and give an outlook on the state of art and...

The 5th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster and the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the two most catastrophic nuclear accidents in history, both occurred recently. Images of Chernobyl are replete with the international sign of radioactive contamination (a circle with three broad spokes radiating outward in a yellow sign). In contrast, ongoing decontamination efforts at Fukushima l...

When disaster strikes, the rapid deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in the disaster area is helpful for real-time monitoring of environmental indicators and improving the efficiency and quality of emergency rescue. In the meanwhile, seveal factors such as the unpredictability of disaster, harsh environment and the urgency of network system put forward lots of special needs in network...

The search and rescue robot’s main goal is to search for any survivor’s in a disaster situation. The course will resembles a miniature of what a disaster situation looks like after an earthquake. We proposed rescue robot to make it getting smarter, safe path from itself to the targets by path planning. We are making a semi-autonomous control rescue robot which allow human operator to share and ...

Effective response to natural or man-made disasters (i.e., terrorism) is predicated on the ability to communicate among the many organizations involved. Disaster response exercises enable disaster planners and responders to test procedures and technologies and incorporate the lessons learned from past disasters or exercises. On May 31 and June 1, 2002, one such exercise event took place at the ...