• DocumentCode
    841494
  • Title

    Radio frequency identification of Hurricane Katrina victims

  • Author

    Gadh, Rajit ; Prabhu, B.S.

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    184
  • Abstract
    There have been reports that the US Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team and health officials in Mississipi´s Harrison County have been implanting human cadavers with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips as part of the effort to speed up the identification process of Hurricane Katrina victims. Motivated by the interest generated by this report, this paper comments on the technology, applications, challenges, performance, and individual and societal implications of RFID
  • Keywords
    disasters; radiofrequency identification; storms; Hurricane Katrina victims; RFID chips; human cadavers; radio frequency identification; Cadaver; Frequency; Humans; Hurricanes; Integrated circuit technology; Loaded antennas; Magnetic fields; Middleware; Pharmaceuticals; Radiofrequency identification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1053-5888
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2006.1598104
  • Filename
    1598104
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=841494