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  • Article
  • Open Access
6,456 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2022

An aviation disaster with mass fatalities can overwhelm an organisation and impact the lives of thousands. The response to such crises can determine the future of the organisation and, more importantly, it can have a lasting effect on the victims&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,446 Views
32 Pages

Helicopter Rescue for Flood Disaster: Scheduling, Simulation, and Evaluation

  • Yuanbo Xue,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Yongliang Tian,
  • Hu Liu and
  • Xiyu Wang

14 December 2022

Frequent severe floods have caused great losses to urban safety and the economy, which raises high requirements for the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency rescue. Due to the flood characteristics, flood rescue requires a more rapid responder a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,624 Views
13 Pages

25 December 2022

This exploratory study examined the impacts of COVID-19 and emerging challenges and opportunities from aviation recovery. Using archival and secondary data analysis, the study found that there are several challenges to aviation recovery chief among t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,836 Views
12 Pages

Superficial defects in the insulation layers of aviation cables can cause serious failures of and disasters for aircraft. Considering the critical importance of safety for aircraft, there is a need to develop a nondestructive technique to detect thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
756 Views
22 Pages

28 August 2025

In recent years, with the rapid development of the unmanned aerial vehicle industry, aviation optoelectronic turrets have been widely applied in fields such as terrain exploration, disaster prevention and mitigation, and national defense. Vibration i...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
756 Views
10 Pages

Detection and Analysis of Airport Tailwind Events Triggered by Frontal Activity

  • Yue Liu,
  • Yixiang Chen,
  • Jinlong Yuan,
  • Zhekai Li,
  • Fangzhi Wei,
  • Tianwen Wei,
  • Jiadong Hu and
  • Haiyun Xia

9 September 2025

Excessive tailwind, threatening the safety of aircraft takeoff and landing, is one of the prominent research topics in the field of aviation meteorology. This paper analyzes the causes of tailwinds at Beijing Daxing International Airport (BDIA), base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,319 Views
14 Pages

Airplane Emergency Landing Due to Quick Development of Mesoscale Convective Complexes

  • Renata Barros Vasconcelos Leirias,
  • Natalia Fedorova and
  • Vladimir Levit

Some meteorological phenomena in South America develop quickly and take on large dimensions. These phenomena cause disasters for aviation, such as incidents and accidents. Mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs) forced a commercial airplane into an eme...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,191 Views
7 Pages

This paper focuses on the goal of the Zero Vision initiative, which aims to reduce fatal traffic accidents to zero, and demonstrates how resilient operations and the continuous improvement of transportation systems can contribute to achieving this go...

  • Article
  • Open Access
572 Views
14 Pages

28 September 2025

The humanitarian aviation supply chain (HASC) serves as a critical conduit for delivering essential aid to populations affected by disasters and conflicts, especially when ground routes are inaccessible. However, HASCs operate in high-risk environmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,203 Views
22 Pages

23 December 2021

Kriging-based modeling has been widely used in computationally intensive simulations. However, the Kriging modeling of high-dimensional problems not only takes more time, but also leads to the failure of model construction. To this end, a Kriging mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,677 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2020

Safety is of paramount concern in aerospace and aviation. Safety has evolved over the years, from the technical era to the human-factors era and organizational era, and finally to the present era of systems-thinking. Building upon three foundational...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,168 Views
3 Pages

29 June 2020

In recent years, some volcanic eruptions have focused scientists’ attention on the detection and monitoring of volcanic clouds, as their impact on the air traffic control system has been unprecedented. In 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull eruptio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,464 Views
23 Pages

Target Localization for Autonomous Landing Site Detection: A Review and Preliminary Result with Static Image Photogrammetry

  • Jayasurya Arasur Subramanian,
  • Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam,
  • Saiful Azrin B. M. Zulkifli,
  • Narinderjit Singh Sawaran Singh,
  • N. Shanthi and
  • Ravi Kumar Lagisetty

2 August 2023

The advancement of autonomous technology in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has piloted a new era in aviation. While UAVs were initially utilized only for the military, rescue, and disaster response, they are now being utilized for domestic and civil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,349 Views
19 Pages

Deep Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Network for Drone Recognition Based on RF Fingerprinting

  • Jie Yang,
  • Hao Gu,
  • Chenhan Hu,
  • Xixi Zhang,
  • Guan Gui and
  • Haris Gacanin

23 November 2022

Drone-aided ubiquitous applications play important roles in our daily lives. Accurate recognition of drones is required in aviation management due to their potential risks and disasters. Radiofrequency (RF) fingerprinting-based recognition technology...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,681 Views
21 Pages

Applications of AI and VR in High-Risk Training Simulations: A Bibliometric Review

  • Pablo Fernández-Arias,
  • Antonio del Bosque,
  • Georgios Lampropoulos and
  • Diego Vergara

13 May 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) in high-risk training simulations represents a significant advance in preparing professionals for critical situations. This study presents an exhaustive bibliometric review of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,602 Views
25 Pages

Application of Mind Map and TRIZ to an Advanced Air Mobility System for Post-Disaster Response

  • Olabode A. Olanipekun,
  • Carlos J. Montalvo,
  • Kari J. Lippert and
  • John T. Wade

20 November 2024

In this article, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) platform focused on search and rescue applications is discussed and analyzed from a systems thinking perspective. By applying two systems thinking tools, namely Mind Map and TRIZ, the strong interaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,495 Views
18 Pages

Rainfall Forecast Using Machine Learning with High Spatiotemporal Satellite Imagery Every 10 Minutes

  • Febryanto Simanjuntak,
  • Ilham Jamaluddin,
  • Tang-Huang Lin,
  • Hary Aprianto Wijaya Siahaan and
  • Ying-Nong Chen

24 November 2022

Increasing the accuracy of rainfall forecasts is crucial as an effort to prevent hydrometeorological disasters. Weather changes that can occur suddenly and in a local scope make fast and precise weather forecasts increasingly difficult to inform. Add...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
14 Citations
13,055 Views
13 Pages

The Role of GNSS-RTN in Transportation Applications

  • Sajid Raza,
  • Ahmed Al-Kaisy,
  • Rafael Teixeira and
  • Benjamin Meyer

The Global Navigation Satellite System—Real-Time Network (GNSS-RTN) is a satellite-based positioning system using a network of ground receivers (also called continuously operating reference stations (CORSs)) and a central processing center that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,688 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2024

Lightning is a hazardous weather phenomenon, characterized by sudden occurrences and complex local distributions. It poses significant challenges for accurate forecasting, which is crucial for public safety and economic stability. Deep learning metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,608 Views
19 Pages

Validation of Ash/Dust Detections from SEVIRI Data Using ACTRIS/EARLINET Ground-Based LIDAR Measurements

  • Alfredo Falconieri,
  • Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos,
  • Francesco Marchese,
  • Carolina Filizzola,
  • Serena Trippetta,
  • Nicola Pergola,
  • Gelsomina Pappalardo,
  • Valerio Tramutoli and
  • Lucia Mona

6 April 2020

Two tailored configurations of the Robust Satellite Technique (RST) multi-temporal approach, for airborne volcanic ash and desert dust detection, have been tested in the framework of the European Natural Airborne Disaster Information and Coordination...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
683 Views
34 Pages

14 July 2025

This paper presents some of the most significant findings in the design of a hydraulic servomechanism for flight controls, which were primarily achieved by the first author during his activity in an aviation institute. These results are grouped into...