Physiological effects of stress related to helicopter travel in Federal Emergency Management Agency search-and-rescue canines by E. Perry, N. Gulson, T.-W. Liu Cross, K. S. Swanson

“…Working canines are deployed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of a National Disaster Response Plan. Stress associated with helicopter flight and the resulting physical effects on the dog are unknown. …”
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Effects of Extreme Precipitation on Runoff and Sediment Yield in the Middle Reaches of the Yellow River by Zongping Ren, Xiaoni Ma, Kaibo Wang, Zhanbin Li

“…Understanding the link between extreme precipitation and changes in runoff and sediment yield is of great significance for regional flood disaster response and soil and water conservation decision-making. …”
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Developing hospital resilience domains in facing disruption era in Indonesia: a qualitative study by Nurmala Sari, Maye Omar, Syahrir A. Pasinringi, Andi Zulkifli, Andi Indahwaty Sidin

“…However, studies in developing the domain and indicators of hospital resilience were limited mainly on disaster response. A few studies of hospital resilience focused on how to deal with disruptions such as environmental turbulence, rapid technological changes, and changes in patient preferences. …”
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Small Target Detection Algorithm for UAV Aerial Photography Based on Improved YOLOv5s by Jingcheng Shang, Jinsong Wang, Shenbo Liu, Chen Wang, Bin Zheng

“…At present, UAV aerial photography has a good prospect in agricultural production, disaster response, and other aspects. The application of UAVs can greatly improve work efficiency and decision-making accuracy. …”
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Post-Disaster Building Damage Detection from Earth Observation Imagery Using Unsupervised and Transferable Anomaly Detecting Generative Adversarial Networks by Sofia Tilon, Francesco Nex, Norman Kerle, George Vosselman

“…This approach aids the post-disaster response phase because the model can be developed in the pre-event phase and rapidly deployed in the post-event phase. …”
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Normalizing shadows in multi-temporal aerial frame imagery using relative radiometric adjustments to support near-real-time change detection by Emanuel Arnal Storey, Douglas Alan Stow, Matthew James Plummer

“…Efficient shadow normalization is integral to remote sensing procedures that support disaster response efforts in a near-real-time fashion, including repeat station image (RSI) capture, wireless data transfer, shadow detection (as precursor to shadow normalization), and change detection based on image differencing and visual interpretation. …”
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Kulintja Nganampa Maa-kunpuntjaku (Strengthening Our Thinking): Place-Based Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing in Anangu Schools by Sam Osborne

“… MindMatters, implemented by Principals Australia Institute, is a resource and professional development initiative supporting Australian secondary schools in promoting and protecting the mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities, preferring a proactive paradigm (Covey, 1989) to the position of ‘disaster response’. While the MindMatters national focus has continued, grown and become embedded in schools since its beginning in 2000, MindMatters staff have also specifically sought to establish localised mental health and wellbeing (MHWB) promotion in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that empowers local school and community groups to build on community values and intergenerational capacities for supporting the MHWB of young people. …”
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Techniques for the Automatic Detection and Hiding of Sensitive Targets in Emergency Mapping Based on Remote Sensing Data by Tianqi Qiu, Xiaojin Liang, Qingyun Du, Fu Ren, Pengjie Lu, Chao Wu

“…Emergency remote sensing mapping can provide support for decision making in disaster assessment or disaster relief, and therefore plays an important role in disaster response. Traditional emergency remote sensing mapping methods use decryption algorithms based on manual retrieval and image editing tools when processing sensitive targets. …”
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Integrated assessment for Sustainable Development Goals of metropolitan regions: A case study of the Pearl River Delta region, China by Jiachun Huang, Vilas Nitivattananon, Dan Lin, Weixia Gong

“…While moderate progress is evidenced in poverty reduction, economic growth, healthcare services, social security, access to potable water, water quality (Goals 1 and 6), challenges remain in transportation, waste generation, air quality, forest management, and disaster response (Goals 9, 11, and 15). Furthermore, target interaction analysis suggests that initiatives in high-leverage areas - ecosystem and environmental protection, equal access to resources and basic services, and climate change response - can yield substantial systemic impacts. …”
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Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Considerations for Municipal Governance by Mary-Ellen Tyler

“…Alberta has a diverse range of climate risks, and risk assessment, adaptation and disaster response needs to reflect this diversity. Surveys done in 2019 and 2021 identified common barriers affecting municipal effectiveness in managing and adapting to climate risk which include: available staff time; access to climate risk and adaptation expertise; access to financial resources; and access to locally relevant and credible climate information and data. …”
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A Practical Approach to Deploying a Drone-Based Message Ferry in a Disaster Situation by Babatunde Ojetunde, Susumu Ano, Toshikazu Sakano

“…In order to improve the information collection and delivery, the message ferry is deployed from the local headquarters (i.e., local government office or disaster response coordination center) to carry information to and from a standalone LACS installed at each disaster shelter. …”
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Exploring hospitals’ functional preparedness effective factors in response to disasters: a qualitative study in a lower middle-income country by Behrouz Samei, Javad Babaie, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Homayoun Sadeghi-bazargani, Saber Azami Aghdash, Naser Derakhshani, Ramin Rezapour

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Prioritizing stakeholder interactions in disaster management: A TOPSIS-based decision support tool for enhancing community resilience by Sahar Elkady, Sara Mehryar, Josune Hernantes, Leire Labaka

“…The results indicate that initiatives focusing on enhancing the leadership skills of emergency managers emerge as the most feasible and impactful interventions in our case study, followed by initiatives for facilitating community participation in the decision-making process and disaster response activities. On the other hand, initiatives for improving emergency response functionality, and disaster risk management plans are less feasible to implement. …”
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A Quantitative Analysis Method of Regional Rainfall-Induced Landslide Deformation Response Variation Based on a Time-Domain Correlation Model by Tingchen Wu, Xiao Xie, Haoyu Wu, Haowei Zeng, Xiaoya Zhu

“…Considering the inadequacy of existing deformation monitoring data for early warnings regarding landslide hazards, resulting in insufficient disaster response times, this paper proposes a time-domain correlation model. …”
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Automatic prediction of consistency among team members' understanding of group decisions in meetings by Kim, Joseph, Shah, Julie A

“…For meetings that require immediate response (such as disaster response planning), the participants must share a common understanding of the decisions reached by the group to ensure successful execution of their mission. …”
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Inferring robot task plans from human team meetings: A generative modeling approach with logic-based prior by Kim, Been, Chacha, Caleb M., Shah, Julie A

“…We aim to reduce the burden of programming and deploying autonomous systems to work in concert with people in time-critical domains, such as military field operations and disaster response. Deployment plans for these operations are frequently negotiated on-the-fly by teams of human planners. …”
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Data + disasters : rethinking the role of Metro Boston's data intermediaries in disaster management by Kim, DeeDee

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Design for community resilience in the age of disasters : a case study in Puerto Rico by Qin, Yiyuan.

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LAMP: Large-Scale Autonomous Mapping and Positioning for Exploration of Perceptually-Degraded Subterranean Environments by Ebadi, Kamak, Chang, Yun, Palieri, Matteo, Stephens, Alex, Hatteland, Alex, Heiden, Eric, Thakur, Abhishek, Funabiki, Nobuhiro, Morrell, Benjamin, Wood, Sally, Carlone, Luca, Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar

“…These challenges are in stark contrast with the need to build highly-accurate 3D maps to support a wide variety of applications, ranging from disaster response to the exploration of underground extraterrestrial worlds. …”
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Experimental assessment of human-robot teaming for multi-step remote manipulation with expert operators by P?rez-D'Arpino, Claudia, Khurshid, Rebecca, Shah, Julie

“…Remote robot manipulation with human control enables applications where safety and environmental constraints are adverse to humans (e.g. underwater, space robotics and disaster response) or the complexity of the task demands human-level cognition and dexterity (e.g. robotic surgery and manufacturing). …”
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