ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-4-273-2014 Towards a Location-based Service for Early Mental Health Interventions in Disaster Response Using Minimalistic Tele-operated Android Robots Technology Vahidi H. 1 Mobasheri A. 2 Alimardani M. 3 Guan Q. 1 4 Bakillah M. 1 5 Faculty of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China GIScience Research Group, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Department of System Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 23 04 2014 XL-4 273 278 Copyright: © 2014 H. Vahidi et al. 2014 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XL-4/273/2014/isprs-archives-XL-4-273-2014.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XL-4/273/2014/isprs-archives-XL-4-273-2014.pdf

Providing early mental health services during disaster is a great challenge in the disaster response phase. Lack of access to adequate mental-health professionals in the early stages of large-scale disasters dramatically influences the trend of a successful mental health aid. In this paper, a conceptual framework has been suggested for adopting cellphone-type tele-operated android robots in the early stages of disasters for providing the early mental health services for disaster survivors by developing a locationbased and participatory approach. The techniques of enabling GI-services in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environment were studied to overcome the limitations of current centralized services. Therefore, the aim of this research study is to add more flexibility and autonomy to GI web services (WMS, WFS, WPS, etc.) and alleviate to some degree the inherent limitations of these centralized systems. A P2P system Architecture is presented for the location-based service using minimalistic tele-operated android robots, and some key techniques of implementing this service using BestPeer were studied for developing this framework.