Abstract
This paper presents a disaster mitigation system using a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). When natural disasters such as large earthquakes strike, immediate assessment of damages and continuous collection of information is necessary for saving disaster victims and constructing revival plans. We develop a small prototype UAV and an onboard software using a GPS navigation system and propose a unique disaster information collection system. This system enables us to collect disaster information in real-time by processing aerial pictures transmitted by the UAV and integrate it to the geographic information system (GIS). The usability of this system is confirmed by flight experiments.
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