09 - Crewed and Uncrewed Aircraft Operations and Traffic Management
QUANTIFYING LAND AERIAL RESCUE DEMAND INTENSITY: A DATA-DRIVEN MODELING APPROACH FOR DEFINING THE AIR-GROUND OPERATIONAL BOUNDARY
G. Wang¹, W. Cheng¹, Y. Wu¹, L. Zhao¹; ¹Aerial Industry Development Research Center of China, China
This paper proposes the Aerial Rescue Demand Intensity (ARDI) index to delineate the air ground operational boundary in land SAR. Coupling active population exposure with terrain difficulty and road accessibility the model produces a nationwide gridded map for mainland China and indicates that about one third (32.3 percent) of grid cells exceed the high dependency threshold.
DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_0298