Rescue Infrastructure for Global Information Collection

In the disaster situation, it is important to collect quickly global information on the disaster area and victims buried in the debris and waiting for rescue. In the DDT project (special project for earthquake disaster mitigation in urban areas), the research and development on rescue infrastructure for global information collection have been carried out. In the activity of the mission unit for infrastructure, ubiquitous handy terminal devices have been and technology for forming an ad-hoc wireless communication network have been developed as well as technology to integrate the collected information on the GIS system including communication protocol design. In this paper, the current R&D activities of the mission unit for infrastructure in the DDT project are overviewed, and some technologies developed so far are introduced