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This paper describes the deployment of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) during a European Civil Protection Mechanism mission to Cyprus in July 2011. Extensive damages at an industrial structure were assessed and evaluated. The utilized aerial robotic platforms, operations and findings are described. This deployment is an example of an situation-adaptive usage of MAVs in response to a man-made disaster.
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Frassl, M., Lichtenstern, M., Angermann, M., Gullotta, G. (2012). Micro Aerial Vehicles in Disaster Assessment Operations – The Example of Cyprus 2011. In: Aschenbruck, N., Martini, P., Meier, M., Tölle, J. (eds) Future Security. Future Security 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_68
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