CRASAR Marine Mass Casualty Exercise (Refugee Drownings) with Italian Coast Guard and ISME

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue conducted an exercise on Sept 24, 2016, with the Italian Coast Guard Genoa, led by Commander Massimo Kothmeir, exploring the use of an EMILY lifeguard assistant unmanned surface vehicle, a Fotokite tethered unmanned aerial vehicle, and LTE cellular communications to prevent refugee drownings in Lampudesa. The work was in partnership with by Prof. Gianluca Antonelli, University of Cassino, and Prof. Pino Casalino, throu