The Eye in the Backcountry: How Compact Drones are Revolutionizing Wilderness Search and Rescue
The golden hour in wilderness search and rescue (SAR) is an unforgiving math problem. When a backpacker goes missing or gets injured in rugged, isolated terrain, survival windows shrink rapidly due to hypothermia, dehydration, or trauma. Historically, finding a lost hiker in a dense alpine forest meant deploying dozens of ground searchers to painstakingly sweep […]