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Police, military and SAR have this already in helicopters. With good equipment you can scan large areas using only one helicopter.
by skinkestek 5y ago
Police, military and SAR have this already in helicopters.
With good equipment you can scan large areas using only one helicopter.
- tastyfreeze 5y agoSAR is a statistical numbers game. Each search method provides some degree of certainty of coverage. Aircraft can't see through trees and thermographic cameras have a tough time seeing hypothermic or dead people. Ground search is still necessary even after a helicopter or fixed wing aircraft have gone over a search zone. A swarm of drones would allow a rapid search of an area with similar coverage statistics as a manned ground search. But a drone going 40 km/h could miss subtle clues like footprints or freshly broken branches.
- skinkestek 5y agoMostly true. The trick is to get out soon enough to find people alive. That said, if hypothermia has gotten so far that one is hard to spot on thermal camera I am afraid there isn't much hope left anyway.