| Title | Automated Damage Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Using Online Mapping Technique with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Mao, Zhong, Yan, Yujie, Wu, Jiahao, Hajjar, Jerome F., Padir, Taskin |
| Conference Name | 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) |
| Keywords | —sUAS, Aircraft, automated damage assessment, autonomous aerial vehicles, Bridges, Cameras, critical infrastructure, Damage Assessment, disasters, homeland security, Infrastructure Inspection, Inspection, Laser radar, lidar, National security, natural disasters, online mapping technique, optical radar, post-disaster response, pubcrawl, Resiliency, small unmanned aircraft systems, sUAS, Three-dimensional displays |
| Abstract | Rapid inspection and assessment of critical infrastructure after man-made and natural disasters is a matter of homeland security. The primary aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of leveraging small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) in support of the rapid recovery of critical infrastructure in the aftermath of catastrophic events. We propose our data collection, detection and assessment system, using a sUAS equipped with a Lidar and a camera. This method provides a solution in fast post-disaster response and assists human responders in damage investigation. |
| DOI | 10.1109/HST47167.2019.9032912 |
| Citation Key | mao_automated_2019 |
Automated Damage Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Using Online Mapping Technique with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems