Interacting with a Virtual Destroyed Environment Constructed from Real Disaster Data

A Destroyed Environment (DE) is created by disastrous events in the built environment. DEs typically consist of the structures created from the rubble of collapsed buildings-forming a chaotic, unplanned and unmapped environment in which emergency first responders must find the surviving occupants who may now be trapped and hidden within. The more knowledge that search teams have concerning the resulting DE, the better they are equipped to plan …