The Development for Using UAV in Disaster Victim Relief

Abstract

In these days, natural disasters have become dramatical and caused damage to lives and properties. UAVs have been utilized in a wide range of disaster relief operations, especially small UAVs/Drones which generally operated by the privates.

               UAVs are very efficient in Disaster Victim Relief and HADR missions due to their air power and outstanding 3D characteristics, which are Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous. The UAVs capability of capturing pictures as bird’s eye view is considered since a whole picture of disaster area can be captured and sent to the respondents via network during HADR mission. Moreover, the small VTOL UAVs are portable and capable for the rescuers to carry while surveying the disaster area.

          To develop the usage of UAVs in disaster response, the RTAF UAV planners should cooperate with manned aircrafts, earth observation satellites, and UAVs from other official units and private sectors by creating an on-call-list for integrating the forces. By using Dynamic Targeting process and Network Centric Operations (NCO) is the core of the planning operations and RTAF should assign the Mission Commander to be the one responsible for overall air operations planning in the disaster area. These are all according to principles of OODA loop and NCO.