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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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José Miguel Rodrigues
The timely and precise prediction of flooding progression and its eventual outcome in ships with breached hulls can lead to dramatic improvements in maritime safety through improved guidance for both emergency response and ship design. The traditional ap...
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Hu Liu, Siliang Liu and Yongliang Tian
Forest fires can develop rapidly and may cause a wide range of hazards. Therefore, aerial firefighting, which has the ability to respond and reach fire fields quickly, is of great significance to the emergency response to and subsequent extinguishing of ...
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Peng Zhang, Qin Qin, Shijie Zhang, Xiangtian Zhao, Xiaoliang Yan, Wei Wang and Hongbin Zhang
Remote sensing has become an essential tool for geological exploration, disaster monitoring, emergency rescue, and environmental supervision, while the limited number of remote sensing satellites and ground stations restricts the timeliness of remote sen...
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Xinya Lei, Yuewei Wang, Wei Han and Weijing Song
Coastal cities are increasingly vulnerable to urban storm surge hazards and the secondary hazards they cause (e.g., coastal flooding). Accurate representation of the spatio-temporal process of hazard event development is essential for effective emergency...
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Yujie Yuan, Yantao Wang, Xiushan Jiang and Chun Sing Lai
The novel coronavirus outbreak has significantly heightened environmental costs and operational challenges for civil aviation airlines, prompting emergency airport closures in affected regions and a substantial decline in ridership. The consequential nee...
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Pradeep Kumar, Guo-Liang Shih, Bo-Lin Guo, Siva Kumar Nagi, Yibeltal Chanie Manie, Cheng-Kai Yao, Michael Augustine Arockiyadoss and Peng-Chun Peng
Violent attacks have been one of the hot issues in recent years. In the presence of closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in smart cities, there is an emerging challenge in apprehending criminals, leading to a need for innovative solutions. In this paper, t...
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Ahad Alotaibi, Chris Chatwin and Phil Birch
In aerial surveillance systems, achieving optimal object detection precision is of paramount importance for effective monitoring and reconnaissance. This article presents a novel approach to enhance object detection accuracy through the integration of De...
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Ayman Noor, Ziad Algrafi, Basil Alharbi, Talal H. Noor, Abdullah Alsaeedi, Reyadh Alluhaibi and Majed Alwateer
Ambulance vehicles face a challenging issue in minimizing the response time for an emergency call due to the high volume of traffic and traffic signal delays. Several research works have proposed ambulance vehicle detection approaches and techniques to p...
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Yunzhou Chen, Shumin Wang, Ziying Gu and Fan Yang
Spatial population distribution data is the discretization of demographic data into spatial grids, which has vital reference significance for disaster emergency response, disaster assessment, emergency rescue resource allocation, and post-disaster recons...
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