Natural and human-made disasters have dramatically increased during the last decades. Given the strong relationship between first responders localization time and the final number of deaths, the modernization of search-and-rescue operations has become imperative. In this context, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)-based solutions are the most promising candidates to take up on the localization challenge by leveraging on emerging technologies such as: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulations. In this paper, we capitalize on such recently available techniques by shedding light on the main challenges and future opportunities to boost the localization performance of state-of-the-art techniques to give birth to unprecedentedly effective missing victims localization solutions.

翻译：在过去几十年里,自然和人为灾害急剧增加。鉴于第一反应者就地定位的时间和最终死亡人数之间的密切关系,搜索和救援行动的现代化已成为当务之急。在这方面,无人驾驶航空飞行器(无人驾驶飞行器)的解决方案是最有希望的人选,可以通过利用新兴技术来应对就地定位挑战,如人工智能(AI)、可再配置的智能表面(RIS)和正方时频空间(OTFS)调控。在本文中,我们利用这些最近获得的技术,展示主要的挑战和未来机会,促进最先进技术的就地化,从而产生前所未有的有效失踪受害者就地定位解决方案。