Land SAR

Incorporating wide area search, mountain, mine or cave rescue, the land SAR community need to be experts in planning and self-sufficiency to operate remotely in some of the worst environmental conditions.

Many of these skills are transferable to other disciplines.

READING LIST:

• Cooper, D.C., Frost, J.R. and Robe, R.Q., 2003. Compatibility of land SAR procedures with search theory. POTOMAC MANAGEMENT GROUP ALEXANDRIA VA.
• Greatbatch, Ian, Gosling, Rebecca J. and Allen, Sophie (2015) Quantifying search dog effectiveness in a terrestrial search and rescue environment. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 26(3), pp. 327-334. ISSN (print) 1080-6032
• Koester, R., Cooper, D., Frost, J. and Robe, R. (2004), “Sweep Width Estimation for Ground Search and Rescue”, p. 267.
• Koester, R.J., Chiacchia, K.B., Twardy, C.R., Cooper, D.C., Frost, J.R. and Robe, R.Q. (2014), “Use of the Visual Range of Detection to Estimate Effective Sweep Width for Land Search and Rescue Based On 10 Detection Experiments in North America”, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 132–142.
• Newiss, G. and Greatbatch, I. (2017), “Men missing on a night out: Exploring the geography of fatal disappearances to inform search strategies”, 672
• Robe, R.Q. and Frost, J.R., 2002. A method for determining effective sweep widths for land searches. Procedures for conducting detection experiments. POTOMAC MANAGEMENT GROUP ALEXANDRIA VA.
• Rossmo, DK, Velarde, L & Mahood T. 2019. Optimizing Wilderness Search and Rescue: A Bayesian GIS Analysis Journal of Search and Rescue. Vol3, Iss2