[GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:24:58AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <dsampson at NRCan.gc.ca> flavor, containing:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I'm looking for people that either use GRASS or would like to use GRASS
> as a part of a mapping solution for volunteer search and rescue groups.

What a timely request.  I'm just such a person, and have *just* this week
started a mailing list for local SAR volunteers to explore using GRASS for
SAR planning, but it's pretty much a case of the one-eyed guy with cataracts 
leading the blind.  I am very much interested.

> Any links to case articles would be great too.

Here's a trivial one I cooked up a couple weeks ago (unfortunately) *after* a 
multi-day search for stranded snowboarders in extreme weather conditions:  
http://www.swcp.com/~russo/080103/

A textbook toy GIS problem that highlighted how well a GIS could have been
used had a volunteer knowledgeable enough to use it been in the command post.
The set of such volunteers is microscopic, though, and I hope to change that
in this area.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
 one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
 oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick