Download or read book Search and Rescue with Geographic Information Systems written by Emrah Söylemez and published by S Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search and Rescue with Geographic Information Systems:Search and rescue operations are spatial activities. Search planners must combine information on where the missing object was last seen, likely routes, and maps of the areas already searched, time last searched, and available resources to effectively mount a search area. The main problem is to produce the reliable probability maps, which accounts for these clues. And Geographic Informaiton System is the best tool for Search and Rescue operations.