SAR Search Patterns

Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.

Search & Rescue application

Search Pattern:

  • Expanding Square
  • Sector Search
  • Parallel Search for one ship
  • Parallel Search for two ships

Orientation as an input to takes into account tide, wind and drift.

Number of legs and its length may be configurable.

Chart Work - Plot on Google maps, Open Sea maps and Bing maps.

GPX output - Generates a GPX file that includes the calculated search pattern for OpenCPN, Google Earth and others. In order to follow the search route with an ECS.

Developed with the collaboration of a SAR expert adviser from France.

Search route loaded on OpenCPN