Automation of Drone Surveillance for Search and Rescue

Abstract

Search and rescue is a critical application of disaster management and executed after the dis- aster. The primary objective of this operation is to save human lives by shifting them to safer places. Disaster response is always a race against a moment to identify the catastrophe victims as quickly as possible. Recent natural calamities such as the earthquake in Nepal s, Tohoku, and Haiyan, or floods in Europe and India have shown that local civil officials and emergency services are having difficulty managing the crisis properly. To handle these situations and find the stuck humans quickly, it is required to search the wide affected area quickly and respond to the needy people in terms of medicine, food packets, or sending their location to the rescue team to shift them to a safer place.