Publications related to Disaster risk reduction

Slash-and-burn agriculture and tropical cyclone activity in Madagascar: Implication for soil fertility dynamics and corn performance

Alexandre Buttler, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Thomas Guillaume, Justine Marie Gay des Combes

On the western coast of Madagascar, the dry tropical forest of Kirindy may disappear in the next 50 years because of its rapid conversion into agricultural land by slash-and-burn cultivation. The slash-and-burn fields are cultivated during 3 years in avera ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity

Ralf Seifert, Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

This paper is inspired by a risk management problem faced by a leading pharmaceutical company. Key operational risk mitigation measures include Risk Mitigation Inventory (RMI), Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity. We study the relationship between these thr ...

2017

Combining Human Computing and Machine Learning to Make Sense of Big (Aerial) Data for Disaster Response

Stéphane Joost, Devis Tuia, Matthew Josef Parkan, Carlos Castillo, Muhammad Imran, Patrick Meier, Julien Briant

Aerial imagery captured via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is playing an increasingly important role in disaster response. Unlike satellite imagery, aerial imagery can be captured and processed within hours rather than days. In addition, the spatial resol ...

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2016

Bio-inspired balance controller for a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, François André Heremans

Humanoid robots are gaining much interest nowadays. This is partly motivated by the ability of such robots to replace humans in dangerous environments being specifically designed for humans, such as man-made or natural disaster scenarios. However, existing ...

Ieee2016

Scenarios for vulnerability: opportunities and constraints in the context of climate change and disaster risk

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Most scientific assessments for climate change adaptation and risk reduction are based on scenarios for climatic change. Scenarios for socio-economic development, partic- ularly in terms of vulnerability and adaptive capacity, are largely lacking. This pap ...

Springer Verlag2015

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

UAVs using Bayesian Optimization to LocateWiFi Devices

Bixio Rimoldi, Stefano Rosati, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Mattia Carpin

We address the problem of localizing non-collaborative WiFi devices in a large region. Our main motive is to localize humans by localizing their WiFi devices, e.g. during search-and-rescue operations after a natural disaster. We use an active sensing appro ...

2015

Adaptation and Awareness in Robot Ensembles: Scenarios and Algorithms

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani

This chapter presents a disaster recovery scenario that has been used throughout the ASCENS project as a reference to coordinate the study of distributed algorithms for robot ensembles. We first introduce the main traits and open problems in the design of ...

Springer2015

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Disaster risk reduction

Slash-and-burn agriculture and tropical cyclone activity in Madagascar: Implication for soil fertility dynamics and corn performance

Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity

From innovation in the construction sector in Haiti to social impact on Haitian society: Digital Norms by Assimilation DNA

Combining Human Computing and Machine Learning to Make Sense of Big (Aerial) Data for Disaster Response

Bio-inspired balance controller for a humanoid robot

Scenarios for vulnerability: opportunities and constraints in the context of climate change and disaster risk

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

UAVs using Bayesian Optimization to LocateWiFi Devices

Adaptation and Awareness in Robot Ensembles: Scenarios and Algorithms

Automated Damage Index Estimation of Reinforced Concrete Columns for Post-Earthquake Evaluations

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Slash-and-burn agriculture and tropical cyclone activity in Madagascar: Implication for soil fertility dynamics and corn performance

From innovation in the construction sector in Haiti to social impact on Haitian society: Digital Norms by Assimilation DNA

Combining Human Computing and Machine Learning to Make Sense of Big (Aerial) Data for Disaster Response

Scenarios for vulnerability: opportunities and constraints in the context of climate change and disaster risk

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Adaptation and Awareness in Robot Ensembles: Scenarios and Algorithms

UAVs using Bayesian Optimization to LocateWiFi Devices

Automated Damage Index Estimation of Reinforced Concrete Columns for Post-Earthquake Evaluations

Bio-inspired balance controller for a humanoid robot

Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity