A REVIEW ON IMPLEMENTS UAVs FOR
DIFFERENT DISASTER MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
Ashwini N, Lalitha R, Ranjitha V, Santosh Yadav
Final Year, B.E
Department of Aeronautical Engineering
East West College of Engineering
Bangalore, India
aeroashrals@gmail.com
Abstract-An unmanned aircraft is defined as an
aircraft that does not carry a human operator, is
operated remotely using varying levels of automated
function, which is normally recoverable and can
carry a lethal or non-lethal payload. Now-a-days,
other than usual applications like photography,
spying, mail delivery etc., the UAVs are being used in
the emergency management other than the military
and commercial applications. The operational and
tactical UAVs are mainly focused on the application
of disaster management. The paper describes the
UAVs application with few major disaster problems
like Nuclear accidents, Dangerous material releases,
floods, earthquakes, forest fires etc.,
I. INTRODUCTION
A Disaster is a serious disruption, occurring over a
relatively short time, of the functioning of a community
or a society involving widespread human, material,
economic or environmental loss and impacts, which
exceeds the ability of the affected community or society
to cope using its own resources. Disasters are due to
inappropriate managed risk. These risks are the
combination of both hazards and vulnerability. Disaster
hits more than 95 percent of all deaths caused by
hazards occur in developing countries results in
suffering of greater costs. Losses due to natural hazards
are 20 percent greater in developing countries than in
the industrial countries.The Disasters can be broadly
classified into two categories are natural disasters and
man-made disasters. The natural disaster which is a
Bhushan J K
Assistant Professor
Department of Aeronautical Engineering
East West College of Engineering
Bangalore, India
kjkbhushan@gmail.com
natural phenomenon that may cause loss of life, injury
or other health impacts, properly damage, loss of
livelihoods and services ,social and economic disruption
or environmental damage. For example;- Earthquakes,
Landslides, Volcanic Eruptions, Floods, Hurricanes,
Tornadoes, Blizzards, Tsunamis and Cyclones. The
Man-Made disasters are the consequence of
technological or human hazards. Examples of man-made
disasters are stampedes, fire transport accidents, incident
accidents, airplane crashes and terrorist attacks, nuclear
and radiation accidents, hazardous material splits.
UAV applications in managing level can be divided into
three groups such as strategical, operational and tactical
levels. The UAV activity supporting Disaster
management can be broadly classified into three
different categories are pre-disaster activity, activity
during managing disaster, post disaster activity.
II. APPLICATIONS OF UAVS FOR
DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS
A. Spread of Hazardous Materials and Nuclear
Accidents
At accidents involving hazardous materials, the
primary task to be solved by the UAV systems is
the accurate identification of direction of spread of
the liquid or gaseous management. For the
particular applications, the UAVs should be
equipped with the relative immobility and 2D
imaging. It may be assumed that the search for
trapped people may takes place, so UAVs flights
become important factors in saving the human lives.
In case of Nuclear accidents, the most important IV. CONCLUSION
information is radioactivity. Here, the radioactivity
which is usually monitored and observed.
The UAVs with different designed configurations which
 Earthquakes are applied for different fields in order to rescue the
Earthquake is a typical disaster i.e., broken out human life.
without any pre-sign and causing not just
seriously building damages but also human die.
The chance for survive of the people trapped in
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 Floods
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Knowing the state of dam managers can
optimize the sources making the critical parts
of dam stronger or in case of escalated problem
can order the evacuation in time. In case of
unaccepted dam broken citizens can be trapped
in flooded areas. The UAV observation can
predict how flooded the area, what building are
in risk, where from and where to evacuate the
citizens etc.,
The importance of this application is the gap of
aerials what means the missing of manned
aerials but drone can offer as a satisfied
solution.
 Forest fires
Generally the fire fighting is done by humans
and fire equipments which are operated
manually. It is not easy for a human to enter
into the hazard place and find the victims;
hence fire fighting UAV is the best solution to
find out the victims and also to control the fire

III. OBJECTIVES
Many UAVs play their vital role in the usual
fields other than military and commercial
purposes such as disaster management. UAVs
are used in order to reduce the human work
load and risk in human safety