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Fig. 1: Image of a Quadrotos MAV as they are used at the Insititute of Communications and Navigation at DLR: the commercially available platform (this one by Ascending Technologies) is augmented with a Raspberry Pi, a WiFi-Dongle and a selection of sensors.

Microdrones as mobile sensor platforms for disaster relief scenarios

Among other things, the current activities in VABENE++ include a study of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs; see Fig. 1) for potential applications in disaster relief and monitoring of large events. Fig. 1: Image of a Quadrotos MAV as they are used at the Insititute of Communications...

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Figure 1: Expansion of the 3K system with four spectral bands of red, green, blue and near infrared

Near Infrared for the detection of water surfaces for flooding scenarios

Floods are one of the natural disasters most common in Germany. Especially for rescue teams and BOS units it is important to know quickly and accurately the affected areas and streets. To be able to detect water surfaces reliably, the spectrum of the 3K sensor system has been...

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During a campaign as part of the EU’s ‘Driving Innovations in Crisis Management for European Resilience’ (DRIVER) project, a crisis management centre was established in the Air Traffic Validation Center – U-FLY – operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Uncrewed airborne disaster relief – rescue exercise in a simulated flood

From 9 September 2015, test flights are taking place on three consecutive days in a simulated disaster scenario as part of the EU's 'Driving Innovations in Crisis Management for European Resilience' (DRIVER) project. Harrowing scenes are being simulated in Braunschweig on those...

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Flight track during the measurements (blue line), positions of the LTE ground stations (green pins) and measured RSRP signal power (colored pins with different lengths – the longer and greener the better the reception quality) visualized with Google Earth

Data Transmission via LTE

So far, in the VABENE++ project data gets transmitted from the aircraft/helicopter to the ground via a special microwave link or an optical laser link. However, for these data links a special mobile ground station needs to be set up in the field. Now a study was carried out to...

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Presentation of VABENE++ during the DLRK 2014

63th German Aerospace Congress

On September 16 - 18, 2014, the 63th German Aerospace Congress was held in Augsburg. Numerous companies in the aerospace industry presented themselves and MT Aerospace additionally offered a special tour to their location in Augsburg to conference attendees. Plenary and technical...

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Optical imagery and F-SAR radar data of "Rock am Ring"

Rock am Ring 2014 – Parallel Flight with DLR’s 3K Sensor and F-SAR

During the Open Air Festival "Rock am Ring" a multisensory dataset was acquired on 6th of June 2014 by DLR's airborne radar system F-SAR on the Dornier Do 228 and the optical camera system 3K on the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, both operated simultaneously on-board of the two...

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Traffic Detection by MAV - The VABENE ++ System is Expanded

The extraction of relevant traffic information is one of the main research areas of the project VABENE ++. For this purpose, methods have already been developed to derive information on traffic flow from aerial photographs. The images are acquired by the 3K camera system on the...

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Participants of the kick-off event of EPISECC in Vienna

Start of EU Project EPISECC - Inventory of European Disaster Relief

Within the EU project EPISECC (Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance Security of Citizens) the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is creating an Europe-wide inventory of events and disasters. This includes information about the actual events, the introduced support...

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Microwave data transmission allows a direct transfer of data from the aircraft to the receiving aerial on the ground.

Test of the VABENE++ System Components

On May 26 and 27, 2014, the first major internal test of the VABENE++ system took place at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen. Employees from four different institutes of the locations in Berlin and Oberpfaffenhofen tested buildup, function and interaction of the system components, since...

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Cessna 208B Grand Caravan and VABENE++ at the ILA 2014

VABENE++ at the ILA 2014 in Berlin

From May 20 to 25, 2014, the German Aerospace Center presented its research topics at the ILA Berlin Air Show 2014. More than 220,000 people visited the air show and had the opportunity to see aircrafts of the research fleet and results of numerous research projects of DLR. In...

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