Ten people who know more than me about SAR!
One of the things I’m getting fed up about in SAR is the parochialism – “I created this, it’s mine and don’t anyone dare criticise it! So I’m going to keep it all to myself” … and so on, and so on. I’m sure everyone within volunteer SAR has had experience of this … all [...]
April 25, 2011
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Robert Bradley ·
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Tags: Bob Koester, Charles Twardy, Daryl Toogood, Don Cooper, Ian 'Max' Maxwell, Jack Frost, Kris Manning, Lou Holmes, Peter Bell, Tony Jones · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Probability of Detection (POD)
Probability of Detection refers to the likelihood of a search resource finding the object they are searching for if it was in the area they were searching. Thanks to Koester, Cooper, Frost and Robe’s 2004 study we can now safely say that it is impossible to subjectively estimate POD. No more should we hear supposed Search Managers [...]
January 8, 2010
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Robert Bradley ·
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Tags: Bob Koester, D Cooper, Jack Frost, Koopman's Exponential Detection Function, POD, Probability of Detection, R Robe, Sweep Width · Posted in: SAR Dictionary


