Abstract
Abstract. The increasing frequency of emergencies urges the need for a detailed and thorough knowledge of the landscape. The first hours after a disaster are not only chaotic and problematic, but also decisive to successfully save lives and reduce damage to the building stock. One of the most important factors in any emergency response is to get an adequate awareness of the real situation, what is only possible after a thorough analysis of all the available information obtained through the Italian protocol Topography Applied to Rescue. To this purpose geomatic tools are perfectly suited to create, manage and dynamically enrich an organized archive of data to have a quick and functional access to information useful for several types of analysis, helping to develop solutions to manage the emergency and improving the success of rescue operations. Moreover, during an emergency like an earthquake, the conventional inspection to assess the damage status of buildings requires special tools and a lot of time. Therefore, given the large number of buildings requiring safety measures and rehabilitation, efficient use of limited resources such as time and equipment, as well as the safety of the involved personnel are important aspects. The applications shown in the paper are intended to underline how the above-mentioned objective, in particular the rehabilitation interventions of the built heritage, can be achieved through the use of data acquired from UAV platform integrated with geographic data stored in GIS platforms.
Highlights
Over the past few decades, natural phenomena that have struck our planet have progressively assumed the characteristics of extreme events, causing various problems in the management of the territory
In the areas struck by an earthquake, after the first missions by the Fire and Civil Protection for life rescue and the recovery of bodies, the first priority is the urgency to intervene with expeditive surveys for the assessment of damage and accessibility conditions in order to plan safety measures and consolidation of structures/infrastructures
The detailed analysis carried out in this work aims at an innovation: the compilation of the TriageEdEm (Triage of The Building in Emergency) card, in use as ordinary facility at the Fire Brigades in Italy, by means of images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in order to, greatly reduce rescue time and increasing the level of safety of the involved operators
Summary
Over the past few decades, natural phenomena that have struck our planet have progressively assumed the characteristics of extreme events, causing various problems in the management of the territory. The detailed analysis carried out in this work aims at an innovation: the compilation of the TriageEdEm (Triage of The Building in Emergency) card, in use as ordinary facility at the Fire Brigades in Italy, by means of images captured by UAV in order to, greatly reduce rescue time and increasing the level of safety of the involved operators. These detection activities in extreme and inaccessible conditions have been conducted and tested for the first time with reference to residential buildings affected by the earthquake that struck the Lacco Ameno resort in the island of Ischia in 2017. Some real survey cases, aimed at carrying out immediate static consolidation and safety measures are examined
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