Post-disaster Navigation and Allied Services over Opportunistic Networks

Thisbook provides the details of developing a digital pedestrian map construction system over theintermittently connected mobile network. Over the past couple of decades, countries across the world, both developing and developed, havewitnessed a significant number of disasters. Thus, it has become mandatory for each of the disaster-pronecountries to equip themselves with appropriate measures to cope with the challenges of providing post-disaster services. Some of the serious challenges are incapacitated communication infrastructure, unstablepower supply and inaccessible road networks. Out of these challenges, the destruction of road networks,especially in developing countries, acts as a major hindrance to effective disaster management. To be morespecific, the success of a disaster response operation generally depends on the speed of evacuation andtransportation of adequate amount of relief materials at the right time to the disaster-affected areas.Hence, map-based navigation support is a primary requirement for post-disaster relief operations. This book also provides the solution of the two otherimportant post-disaster management services such as situational awareness and resource allocation. Bothof these services are invariably dependent on the existence of navigation support. Finally, in order to offersuch services, the other challenge is to address the problem of incapacitated communicationinfrastructure. This book also deals with such challenges in post-disaster scenarios and developsautomated post-disaster management services.