July 2024
Abstract:
The integration of manned and unmanned aircraft can help improve wildfire response. Wildfire containment failures occur when the resources available to first responders, who execute the initial stages of wildfire management referred to as the initial attack, are ineffective or insufficient...
October 2024
Abstract:
Ambulance exchange points are preidentified sites where patients are transferred between evacuation platforms while en route to enhanced medical care. We propose a new capability for maritime medical evacuation, which involves co-opting underway watercraft as overwater ambulance exchange points to transfer patients between medical evacuation aircraft....