Özet:

Disaster management and search and rescue operations have gained great importance for countries in disaster zones such as Turkey. Personnel are exposed to high physical activity during disasters and search and rescue operations. Depending on the nature of the operation, a search and rescue personn el may have to carry heavy technical equipment. This situation reduces the efficiency of the personnel and shortens the search and rescue range. During the operation, there may be a need for quick access to technical equipment at any time. This situation has brought up the problem of increasing the physical efficiency of search and rescue personnel and accessing technical equipment quickly and effectively during the operation. 06.02.2023 The two major earthquakes that took place in Kahramanmaraş have also shown how important it is to have high personnel efficiency and to be able to intervene quickly. These problems have once again brought the importance of Cargo UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) used in search and rescue operations to the agenda. In this study, the materials that are important to be transported in search and rescue operations are identified and UAVs that can deliver these materials to the scene in the shortest time are selected. The selected UAVs were evaluated based on 5 criteria: time in the air, payload capacity, unit price, range and weight. The criteria weights of these UAVs were determined using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, one of the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods, and the alternatives were ranked using the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions (TOPSIS) method and it was aimed to reach the optimum result.

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