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Aerial robot swarms have the potential to perform time-critical and dangerous tasks such as disaster response without compromising human safety. However, their reliance on external infrastructure such as global positioning for localization and wireless net ...
EPFL2022Moratorium
L’architecture, de toute sorte, répond à une seule constante: celle de la croissance. Une croissance démographique, productive (et donc consommatrice); une croissance économique, culturelle, religieuse; une croissance extractive, décidée et honteusement as ...
2021Practical issues with modeling extreme Brazilian rainfall
Anthony Christopher Davison, Isolde Santos Previdelli, Paulo Vitor Da Costa Pereira
Accurately quantifying extreme rainfall is important for the design of hydraulic structures, for flood mapping and zoning and for disaster management. In order to produce maps of estimates of 25-year rainfall return levels in Brazil, we selected 893 shorte ...
BRAZILIAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION2021The challenges of impact evaluation: Attempting to measure the effectiveness of community-based disaster risk management
Anthony Christopher Davison, Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler, Alfredo Rafael Kägi Trejo
Although disaster risk management is becoming increasingly important in development cooperation, there is still a lack of robust evidence regarding its effectiveness. Few studies based on a counterfactual have been conducted in the fields of disaster manag ...
2020A comparative study of indoor environmental quality in temporary emergency shelters
Extreme natural or man-made disasters are events caused by factors that injure, displace people and damage property. Victims of such events are often forced to live in temporary emergency shelters for prolonged time. It is therefore important to evaluate t ...
2020Barriers to the implementation of international agreements on the ground: Climate change and resilience building in the Araucanía Region of Chile
Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler
Implementing disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA/M), and sustainable development are key to increasing community resilience to pressing climate change risks. Barriers to grassroots implementation of national and int ...
2020Community-based landslide risk reduction: a review of a Red Cross soil bioengineering for resilience program in Honduras
Silvia Hostettler, Antonio D'Acunzi
Effective long-term participation of communities in disaster risk reduction measures in landslide-prone areas continues to be a challenge. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which community-based soil-bioengineering techniques allow for effective mi ...
2019UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning
Situational awareness by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is important for many applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response. In those applications, detecting and locating people and recognizing their actions in near real-time ...
2019Flexible Disaster Response of Tomorrow: Final Presentation and Evaluation of the CENTAURO System
Xi Chen, Fabian Maximilian Schilling
Mobile manipulation robots have great potential for roles in support of rescuers on disaster-response missions. Robots can operate in places too dangerous for humans and therefore can assist in accomplishing hazardous tasks while their human operators work ...
2019Minimalist Design of a 3-Axis Passive Compliant Foot for Sprawling Posture Robots
Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Tomislav Horvat
A sprawled posture amphibious biorobot resembling a salamander had helped us in conquering scientific questions of the locomotion of these animals and offer us with technological possibilities for applications in disaster response. However, so far the foot ...
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