Prototype airborne search and rescue system

Ryland Dreibelbis; Wayne A. Hembree; David W. Affens

doi:10.1117/12.395558

17 August 2000 Prototype airborne search and rescue system

Ryland Dreibelbis, Wayne A. Hembree, David W. Affens

Proceedings Volume 4050, Automatic Target Recognition X; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395558
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Aircraft sometime crash in forested areas without leaving an easily detectable entry point or other indication that a crash has occurred. The wreckage can be completely obscured by overhead vegetation, which makes locating efforts, by air and ground search teams nearly impossible. In addition, there are many times, for many reasons, that emergency beacons fail to operate after a crash has occurred. For these cases, NASA has been experimenting with airborne synthetic aperture radar to provide a search tool to help focus the visual searches that are initiated after an aircraft is reported missing. This paper reviews a proposed operational scenario and the elements of a prototype airborne system that could be brought into use for finding crashed aircraft obscured from view.

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Ryland Dreibelbis, Wayne A. Hembree, and David W. Affens "Prototype airborne search and rescue system", Proc. SPIE 4050, Automatic Target Recognition X, (17 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395558

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