Aiding emergency response to multiple casualty terrorist bombings targeting public surface transportation vehicles

Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 226-231

  Da Silva, Marcus L ^a,b   Matsumoto, Mitsuji ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBING; EXPLOSIVES; HEALTH; MILITARY OPERATIONS; TRANSDUCERS; VEHICLES;

ASSESSMENT METHODS; BLAST OVERPRESSURE; EMERGENCY RESPONSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; SURFACE TRANSPORTATION;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 49249089033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNSC.2008.4525215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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