Search Manager/Search Technique Effectiveness

From PCSAR

On this page we start to collect information on the typical effectiveness of different search techniques. This information can be used to validate the PODs reported from the field.

[edit] Search dogs

A NASAR analysis of the effectiveness of search dog teams. There are no good statistics for SAR so wildlife detection dogs are used to approximate.

"wildlife detection dogs operating in the field cover approximately 5 to 25 ha/hr with reported detection rates of 33% to 95% based on various measuring systems. Lastly, wildlife detection dogs were found to be 5 to 15 times more effective than trained humans in the field."