TY - GEN
T1 - UAV-Assisted Emergency Response: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
AU - Long, Yuying
AU - Zhang, Haoyue
AU - Wang, Xinyue
AU - Xu, Gangyan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors.
PY - 2023/11/7
Y1 - 2023/11/7
N2 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention from industries and academia because of their high accessibility, flexibility, efficiency, and low energy consumption. In the last decade, UAVs have been successfully applied in various emergency scenarios, and many new technologies and approaches have emerged from different disciplines. To facilitate the UAV application and technological development in emergency scenarios, this paper systematically analyzes UAV-assisted emergency response from the perspectives of different disciplines and their interactions. Specifically, an in-depth bibliometric analysis was conducted on the related research papers published in the last twenty years. Then the application scenarios, technological focuses, and open questions were discussed. Results show that UAV-assisted emergency response is a typical interdisciplinary topic that attracts contributions from disciplines including medicine, communication, geology, and transportation. In particular, the interdisciplinarity of the medicine-transportation domain, communication-geology domain, and transportation-communication domain has been widely discussed.
AB - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention from industries and academia because of their high accessibility, flexibility, efficiency, and low energy consumption. In the last decade, UAVs have been successfully applied in various emergency scenarios, and many new technologies and approaches have emerged from different disciplines. To facilitate the UAV application and technological development in emergency scenarios, this paper systematically analyzes UAV-assisted emergency response from the perspectives of different disciplines and their interactions. Specifically, an in-depth bibliometric analysis was conducted on the related research papers published in the last twenty years. Then the application scenarios, technological focuses, and open questions were discussed. Results show that UAV-assisted emergency response is a typical interdisciplinary topic that attracts contributions from disciplines including medicine, communication, geology, and transportation. In particular, the interdisciplinarity of the medicine-transportation domain, communication-geology domain, and transportation-communication domain has been widely discussed.
KW - bibliometric analysis
KW - disaster response
KW - emergency management
KW - interdisciplinary perspective
KW - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184304109&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/ATDE230674
DO - 10.3233/ATDE230674
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85184304109
T3 - Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
SP - 771
EP - 780
BT - Leveraging Transdisciplinary Engineering in a Changing and Connected World - Proceedings of the 30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
A2 - Cooper, Adam
A2 - Koomsap, Pisut
A2 - Stjepandic, Josip
PB - IOS Press BV
T2 - 30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering: Leveraging Transdisciplinary Engineering in a Changing and Connected World, TE 2023
Y2 - 11 July 2023 through 14 July 2023
ER -