SARBayes
19 November 2009, 0:29 UTCTwin Engine Quip
From a list of pilot quotes:
"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
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31 May 2009, 9:53 UTCAMDR & ESW II
Updated scatterplots for AMDR vs ESW still show good correlation.
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30 January 2009, 1:44 UTC99% of those found alive...
99% of subjects found alive are found within about 50 hours. Think about that. Should you call off a search after 50 hours?
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5 July 2008, 0:27 UTCAMDR & ESW
23 June 2008, 19:08 UTCProbabilty Mapper README
9 June 2008, 18:10 UTCAutomated Image Segmentation
5 June 2008, 19:47 UTCESRI SAR Articles
8 May 2008, 1:56 UTCMore wireframes
16 February 2008, 11:52 UTCSpreading probability around
18 November 2007, 0:19 UTCInteresting Papers on GIS
2 November 2007, 2:59 UTCSAR Spotlight Forum
22 September 2007, 0:25 UTCRe-Post: Comments on O'Connor
14 September 2007, 13:48 UTCBlog links, MTurk
28 June 2007, 10:52 UTCACFR & Nuit Blanche
25 April 2007, 2:24 UTCRabbit on Search Management
2 April 2007, 20:31 UTCLandmine probability maps
2 April 2007, 10:20 UTCSyrotuck's Data
Two papers on SAR & GIS from a February 2008 ESRI Conference.
Don Ferguson's paper shows how they used ESRI GIS software on an actual search. Obviously he's developed some SAR-specific layers. Imagine if the probability map could be auto-generated...
Yes, I'm getting in touch with him.
Notes:
Don is the current chair of the Mountaineer Area Rescue Group, part of the Appalachian Search & Rescue Conference. He's also a Ph.D. engineer with the DOE.
His SAR blog.
Slide show by Robert Netsch on the 1-year anniversary of the SAROPS 1.0 rollout.
Being a slide show, it doesn't say much, though it has some nice screenshots. However, it does sketch their globe-spanning server architecture. They seem to have about 15 servers around the US: Honolulu, San Juan, Guam, Cleveland, Alameda, Seattle, Miami, Portsmouth, and Boston. It appears they have over 50 units and probably over 1000 people using it by now.
They suggest they are migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS.