[GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:29:20PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <gnelson at uiuc.edu> flavor, containing:
> Your example is really cool! How well did it do in actually targeting the
> location of the missing snow boarders?

Well, as I said, I did this *after* the snowboarders were actually found
(alive and well), so this work did nothing to help the search, and is only 
meant as an inspiration for planners to learn GIS (or get geeks who can
serve as technical specialists) so that maybe it'll be a tool that can help 
in the future.  

But the location of the find was right inside the final area I generated
with GRASS, and is plotted on the final image.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tom Russo
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:13 PM
> To: Sampson, David
> Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups
> 
> 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
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> is
>  one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
>  oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick
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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