# Drones4Good: Supporting Disaster Relief Through Remote Sensing and AI

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05074 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.05074/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 18 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 Aug 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1405.0312/) (2014)
- [YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02767/) (2018)
- [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.07919/) (2019)
- [Training Region-based Object Detectors with Online Hard Example Mining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.03540/) (2016)
- [DeepGlobe 2018: A Challenge to Parse the Earth through Satellite Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06561/) (2018)
- [Enhancing Geometric Factors in Model Learning and Inference for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.03572/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [DMM: Disparity-guided Multispectral Mamba for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.08132/) (2024)
- [DisasterQA: A Benchmark for Assessing the performance of LLMs in Disaster Response](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.20707/) (2024)
- [Damage Assessment after Natural Disasters with UAVs: Semantic Feature Extraction using Deep Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.10756/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In order to respond effectively in the aftermath of a disaster, emergency services and relief organizations rely on timely and accurate information about the affected areas. Remote sensing has the potential to significantly reduce the time and effort required to collect such information by enabling a rapid survey of large areas. To achieve this, the main challenge is the automatic extraction of relevant information from remotely sensed data. In this work, we show how the combination of drone-based data with deep learning methods enables automated and large-scale situation assessment. In addition, we demonstrate the integration of onboard image processing techniques for the deployment of autonomous drone-based aid delivery. The results show the feasibility of a rapid and large-scale image analysis in the field, and that onboard image processing can increase the safety of drone-based aid deliveries.