Description: CUBER: Critical Urban Buildings Emergency Response - An intelligent decision-support system to support critical built facilities emergency preparedness and response to extreme events
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CUBER: Overview
Destructive disasters often result in severe damages to buildings, leading to uncertainty about the structural stability of the building and the whereabouts of the occupants being trapped. Such disasters are rare but inevitable typically caused by events such as fires, storms, or explosions, and may lead to deaths. In this type of crisis, the challenge is to assist the search and rescue personnel to prepare and devise a rescue plan to reduce the time required to quickly locate and rescue the surviving victi
This project seeks to develop a state of the art decision-support system, as a strategic emergency preparedness and response tool. The aim is to provide new tools to expedite urban search and rescue operations for preparedness and response after disasters. This will allow rescuers to obtain more timely and accurate situation awareness, which not only increases the number of successfully rescued persons, but also lower the risk for first responders significantly.