SARDO: An Automated Search-and-Rescue Drone-based Solution for Victims Localization

Understand

Natural disasters affect millions of people every year.

• Finding missing persons in the shortest possible time is of crucial importance to reduce the death toll.
• This task is especially challenging when victims are sparsely distributed in large and/or difficult-to-reach areas and cellular networks are down.
• In this paper we present SARDO, a drone-based search and rescue solution that exploits the high penetration rate of mobile phones in the society to localize missing people.