Disaster Response

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The field studies how to turn fast-changing information into decisions that protect people and restore essential services during emergencies. Computer vision and remote sensing assess floods, fires, and building damage, while language tools extract locations and needs from crisis messages, calls, and reports. Optimization, temporal planning, and simulations support evacuation, routing, supply delivery, and coordination among people, vehicles, and drones. A central challenge is ensuring that systems are grounded, calibrated, and useful under real operational constraints, since strong benchmark scores or convincing reports do not guarantee reliable decisions in the field.

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  1. Communicating with the Entire Population: Machine Translation of Emergency Alerts and Warnings

    Oct 23, 2026Jen Wilson, Vipasha Bansal, William D. LewisMachine TranslationDisaster Response

    Computational Linguistics Program, University of Washington

  2. Agentic Hazard Mapper: Emulating Expert Map-Making with AI Agents for Risk Communication

    Oct 23, 2026Sidi Wu, Lifeng Lin, Yizi Chen +2Data VisualizationAgentic Workflows

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland · University of Tokyo, Japan

  3. AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring

    Oct 15, 2026Noora Al-Emadi, Muhammad Imran, Yin Yang +5Disaster Response

  4. Forecast lead time and the timing of crew deployment for weather-driven power outages using AI weather models

    Oct 14, 2026Mohammad Kian Golkar, Luciano Alves de Oliveira, Mohamad AlipourDisaster ResponseWeather Forecasting

    Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA · Department of Civil Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61821, USA

  5. Trust Before Autonomy: Rethinking Agentic Remote Sensing for Crisis Response

    Oct 13, 2026Georgios Angelidis, Aggelos Psiris, Spyridon Evangelatos +4Agent ReliabilityRemote Sensing

    Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece · Netcompany-Intrasoft S.A., Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Dimocritus University of Thrace, Kavala, Greece +1

  6. Looking Complete Is Not Being Grounded: Evaluating LLM Sitreps Against Human-Authored Situation Reports

    Oct 13, 2026Sachin KumarLanguage Model Generation EvaluationLLM Grounding

    LexisNexis, USA

  7. A Decade of PhotoMappers: A Longitudinal Study of Crowdsourced Disaster Photos Geolocalization with Vision-Language Models and Geospatial Reasoning

    Oct 11, 2026Hao Li, Wenping Yin, Fabian Deuser +5Geospatial ReasoningVLM Reasoning

    Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore · College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China · University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany +6

  8. AI4Fire: Evaluating Large Language Models on Wildfire Tasks

    Oct 7, 2026Yue Zhao, Zuobin Xiong, Xiyang Hu +3LLM EvaluationLLM Grounding

    University of Southern California · University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Arizona State University +1

  9. Generative AI translations in high-stakes emergency messaging

    Oct 6, 2026Nune Ayvazan, Anthony Pym, Yu HaoDisaster ResponseMachine Translation

    Universitat Rovira i Virgili · University of Melbourne

  10. A Simulation-Grounded Agentic VLM Framework for Wildfire Monitoring and Reporting

    Oct 1, 2026Duowen Chen, Yuchen Sun, Zhiqi Li +4Vision-Language ModelsMemory-Augmented VLMs

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Sandia National Laboratories

  11. An ontology for cross-sectoral crisis management: core and public health modules

    Oct 1, 2026Aldo Gangemi, Rita T. Sousa, Luigi Asprino +6Knowledge RepresentationDisaster Response

    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy · San Raffaele University of Rome, Rome, Italy · Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany +3

  12. A Two-Echelon Covering Tour Vehicle Routing Problem with Drones for Post-Disaster Relief

    Sep 28, 2026Dang Viet Anh Nguyen, Rajesh Piplani, Aldy GunawanVehicle RoutingDisaster Response

    Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Akademivej Bygning 358, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore

  13. Distributed Infrastructure Sensors and Cues for Robotic Fire-Fighting and Safety System on a Lunar Base

    Sep 19, 2026Alexis Munguia, Eryc Rodriguez, Drake Russ +1Disaster ResponseRobotics

    Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration (SpaceTREx) Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1130 N Mountain Ave., N417, Tucson, AZ 85718

  14. HUMAID-NER: A Disaster Tweet Dataset for Joint Named Entity Recognition and Event Classification via Uncertainty-Weighted Multitask Learning

    Sep 15, 2026Aijaz Ali, Nazish Basir, Sarfaraz Nawaz +2Named Entity RecognitionMulti-Task Learning

    Department of Software Engineering University of Sindh Jamshoro, Pakistan · Department of Information Technology University of Sindh Jamshoro, Pakistan · Dr. A. H. S. Bukhari Postgraduate Centre of ICT University of Sindh Jamshoro, Pakistan +1

  15. GPEvac: GNN-Based PPO for Adaptive Evacuation Routing During Shooting Events

    Sep 14, 2026Daniel Perkins, Subhadeep ChakrabortyGraph Neural NetworksDisaster Response

    The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Tennessee

  16. Joint UAV Activation and Placement for Post-Disaster Wireless Restoration via a Hybrid Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Framework

    Sep 7, 2026Fatima Azzahraa Amarcha, Lahcen Hassine, Rachid Saadane +4Wireless CommunicationsDisaster Response

    LPHE, Modeling and Simulations, Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. · Hassania School of Public Works (EHTP), Laboratory Engineering System, SIRC Team, Casablanca, Morocco. · Genuis Lab, School of Management, Telecommunications and Computer Science (SUPMTI), Rabat, Morocco. +3

  17. Multilingual Agent System for Inclusive Wildfire Evacuation Guidance

    Sep 3, 2026Shruti Kulkarni, Lynn Tong, Aditi Namboodiripad +5Disaster Response

    MS in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Program, University of San Francisco · Accenture

  18. Verifiable Disaster Storylines and Causal Knowledge Graphs: A Citation-Grounded Pipeline from Heterogeneous Humanitarian Sources

    Sep 1, 2026Ivan Decostanzi, Michele Ronco, Sergio Consoli +8KG ConstructionGrounded Text Generation

    ISI Foundation · Turin, Italy · European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) +4

  19. A Temporal Planning Approach for Intelligent Flood Response

    Aug 20, 2026Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui, Md. Monjurul Islam, Sabah Binte NoorDisaster Response

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur, 1707, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh Army University of Engineering & Technology, Natore, 6431, Bangladesh

  20. FloodReasonBench: Benchmarking VLM Reasoning Segmentation for Embodied Flood Response at the Edge

    Aug 15, 2026Rajat Bhattacharjya, Yoomee Jung, Minwoo Kim +4Reasoning SegmentationVLM Evaluation

    University of California, Irvine · Kookmin University, South Korea

  21. Causal Evidence Extraction and Triangulation in Crisis Reports using Large Language Models: A ReliefWeb-based Study

    Aug 5, 2026Yuanjun Zhang, Mourad OussalahRelation ExtractionLLM Grounding

    University of Oulu, Finland · LUT University, Finland

  22. Adaptive Sampling for Automated Post-Disaster Rapid Damage Assessment via Level-Set Cost-Aware Bayesian Optimization

    Aug 3, 2026Boyang Xu, Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei, Mohammad Ilbeigi +1Disaster Damage AssessmentBuilding Damage Assessment

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University · Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida · Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

  23. Theia: Large-Scale Multimodal Captioning and Automated Validation of the Incidents1M Dataset for Data-Free Distillation

    Jul 30, 2026Simone Giano, Lorenzo Severini, Alessandro Galdelli +1Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationImage Captioning

    aDipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona, 60121, Marche, Italy

  24. A Systems Engineering Framework for Vision-Language-Enabled UAV Triage and Disaster Response

    Jul 30, 2026Swapnil Saha, Bhuvan Rajanasiriyur Jagadeesha, Karishma Patnaik +1Aerial RoboticsLanguage Model-Based Control

    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72701, USA · University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, 48128, USA

  25. DispatchRAG: Grounding Emergency Dispatch Decisions in Real-World Protocols from Traffic Accident Video

    Jul 25, 2026Muhammad Sulthan Adhipradhana, Ehsan Javanmardi, Naren Bao +1Disaster ResponseVideo Reasoning

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  26. Polar Coordinate-based Differential Evolution for Moving Target Search Using Vision Sensor on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Jul 20, 2026Thu Hang Khuat, Duy-Nam Bui, Thuy Ngan Duong +1Differential EvolutionUAV Navigation

    1VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. · Department of Electrical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea. · College of Engineering and Computer Science and Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X), VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam.

  27. Empirical Grounding Improves the Realism of LLM Agents Simulating Human Behavior During Disruptions

    Jul 19, 2026Chen Xia, Zexi Kuang, Yuqing HuLLM GroundingHuman Behavior Simulation

    Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, United States of America · Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America · Digital and Interdependent Built Environment Laboratory, Department of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

  28. Topology-Informed Neural Networks for Flood Detection in Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

    Jun 24, 2026Sophia Li, Max Zhao, Raghu G. Raj +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDisaster Response

    aU.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA · bStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  29. From Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response

    Jun 24, 2026Samuel Tovey, Stefan Prestel, Hiroshi YamauchiDisaster Response

    1Quantum Brilliance · 2SoftBank Corp.

  30. RAPID: A Reproducible Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite and Street-View Imagery

    Jun 20, 2026Yifan Yang, Wenjing Gong, Kaili Zhang +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDisaster Damage Assessment

    Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA · National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore · The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA