Why drones and AI can’t quickly find missing flood victims, yet

Photo caption: Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron load a UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter with lifesaving equipment at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., July 30, 2022. […] Photo credit: U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Clayton Wear via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Robin R. Murphy and Thomas Manzini. The Conversation – July 16, 2025.

For search and rescue, AI is not more accurate than humans, but it is far faster. Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for rapidly determining building and road damage after hurricanes or shifting wildfire lines suggest that artificial intelligence could be valuable in searching for missing persons after a flood. […]

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