Monitoring and information fusion for search and rescue operations in large-scale disasters

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2002

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 672-679

  D'Agostino, Fabrizio ^a   Farinelli, Alessandro ^a   Grisetti, Giorgio ^a   Iocchi, Luca ^a   Nardi, Daniele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

disaster simulation; information acquisition; information fusion; multi agent systems; planning; situation assessment

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANNING; SIMULATORS;

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DISASTER SIMULATION; HIGH-LEVEL INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; LARGE-SCALE DISASTERS; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SITUATION ASSESSMENT;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 84901389361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2002.1021219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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