SAR-OPS

Search and rescue operations

The first hour decides the whole search.

Collect the missing person's information, get a probable search area, generate the tasks, order and prioritise them by statistics and put them on each team's phone with a QR code or a WhatsApp message.

From the call to the report, on the same screen

Why it exists

In a search, what fails is almost never the willingness.

01

Planning drags on

Maps on the hood of a car, crossed phone calls and decisions that depend on who is on duty that night. While decisions are being made, nobody is searching.

02

Information arrives half-complete

What they were wearing, what they took, who they were with, what medication they need. If it isn't asked well and early, it can't be recovered.

03

Reports arrive late, or not at all

When the operation ends, the team is exhausted. The report ends up as four notes and the memory of three people.

04

The archive gets lost

Without an organised history there is no follow-up and no review, and every search starts again from scratch.

None of it is a people problem. All of it is a tools problem.

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The problem

Origin

This wasn't designed in an office.

SAR-OPS comes from standing in the field with the dog ready, waiting for the assignment to arrive while the first hour burns away.

None of that is fixed by running faster. It is fixed with a tool that already knows what to ask, what to calculate and what to hand each team.

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Every minute gained on the map is one more minute of searching in daylight.

Made by people who search.

Origin

How it works

From the call to deployment, in six steps.

The same order any operation follows, without the dead time between one step and the next.

01

Open the operation

Location and number of missing people. The rest writes itself.

02

Collect the information

Full profile of the missing person and of each reporting party.

03

Calculate urgency and area

Statistical rings, real terrain and weather for the area.

04

Generate the tasks

By sectors or along paths, prioritised by statistics.

05

Deploy with a QR code

Each team takes its dossier and GPX route, and uploads its track on the way back.

06

Track and close

Runs, tracks, clues and findings. When you close, the report is already written.

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How it works

Step 1 · Open the operation

Opening an operation takes two pieces of data.

NEW OPERATION

Basic data

Location

Collado Norte, Sierra de Guadarrama

Victims

2

Names

Lucía M. · Andrés R.

SUMMARY · WRITTEN BY AI

Operation Collado Norte

Search for two hikers not located after starting a route through Collado Norte. It can be edited now or later.

Location and number of missing people

With that the operation already exists and you can start working on it.

Name and description, written for you

AI writes them from the data so you can get on with what matters.

Active, on hold or closed

An operation is paused, closed and reactivated whenever needed, without losing anything.

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Step 1 · Create

Step 2 · Collect the information

A profile that leaves nothing out.

Basic data

Name, nickname, ID document, date of disappearance, language and punctuality

Physical description

Age, gender, height, weight, skin, hair, facial hair and photo

Clothing

Item by item: brand, colour, size and style. Even the sole pattern

Incident

Last sighting, activity, planned and alternative destination and route

Vehicle and animal

Type, description, tyres, tracker and accompanying animal

Equipment and experience

Water, food, light, warm clothing, GPS, beacon, walkie-talkie… and whether they know the area

Health

Physical condition, injuries, allergies, medication, mobility, sight and hearing

Mental health

Dementia, autism, depression, substance use, recent events and risk level

REPORTING PARTIES

Each reporting party with their phone number, ID, relationship to the missing person and reason for the report.

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Step 2 · Information

Step 2 · AI support

AI does the desk work.

01

Operation name and description

Written from the location and the missing people.

02

Physical and clothing description

A clear text built from the profile fields, so everyone searches for the same thing.

03

Categories that fit

Reads the planned activity and suggests plausible categories. If the one chosen doesn't match, it warns you.

04

Reference image of the scene

With the clothing, vehicle, animal and photo if there is one. Only when there is enough detail, and without intimate details.

WHAT DOESN'T DEPEND ON AI

Urgency, area and tasks come from statistics and calculation.

With the same data they always give the same result. What AI writes is reviewed and edited before use.

If AI doesn't respond, you are notified and everything else keeps working.

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Step 2 · AI

Step 3 · Assess urgency

Urgency, in one clear answer.

Eleven factors about the missing person and the environment. Most fill in automatically from the profile and the real weather forecast for the area.

Age

Medical condition

Punctuality

Physical condition

Experience and area

Clothing

Equipment

Circumstances

Weather

Terrain and hazards

People and separation

Urgent response

11–15

Moderate response

16–27

Investigate and assess

28–41

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Step 3 · Urgency

Step 3 · Calculate the area

The probable area comes from statistics.

Probability rings from the IPP depending on who is lost and where, oriented towards their destination.

32 CATEGORIES

Hiker, hunter, forager, child aged 4 to 6, dementia, 4x4 vehicle…

REAL TERRAIN

Local climate and mountainous or flat relief, deduced from the real elevation.

COVERAGE OF YOUR CHOICE

Draws the area that covers the percentage you decide, or calculates how much the one you draw covers.

A statistical estimate: always reviewed with operational judgement.

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Step 3 · Area

Step 3 · Operation map

The whole operation, on one map.

WHAT GETS MARKED

IPP and ICP, the latter at your current position
Last sighting and last known position
Planned and alternative destinations and routes
Vehicle, clues and findings
Search area, tasks and team tracks

WITH WHAT

Map, satellite and topographic
Areas and routes drawn or imported as GPX
Distance and coordinate measurement
Place search by name
Layers you hide with one click

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Step 3 · Map

Step 4 · Generate the tasks

Tasks are generated from the map.

MINIMAL

What can't wait

Thorough search at the IPP and at each destination
Mirror of each planned and alternative route
Radii based on the missing person's statistics

QUICK SEARCH

All terrain, along paths

Sweeps along paths, tracks and roads
Villages turned into area tasks
In batches, with the % of the area already covered

SECTOR SEARCH

All terrain, in sectors

Sectors with natural limits
Each one with its probability
Also with villages and in batches

AVAILABLE RESOURCES

Trailing dogs

Air-scent dogs

Signcutters

Drones

Aerial assets

Each task recommends which resource to deploy, and with aerial assets a reconnaissance of the whole area is added.

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Step 4 · Tasks

Step 4 · Quick search

Sweeps a team can walk.

ON FOOT

Loops that return to where the car is left. The way back counts: 4 km per sweep, or whatever you choose.

BY VEHICLE

Open routes, 25 km by default, that respect one-way streets.

BY PRIORITY

Starts with the terrain closest to the IPP and doesn't repeat what another task already covers.

NO SURPRISES

A classic route-allocation method, no AI: same data, same allocation.

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Step 4 · Sweeps

Step 4 · Sector search

Sectors a team can comb.

LIMITS NOBODY CROSSES

Rivers, canals, motorways, railways and cliffs stay on the edge, never in the middle: they can't be crossed on foot.

ONE SHIFT PER SECTOR

0.5 km² by default, what a team of five combs in a shift. Compact sectors, no corridors, and no sea or reservoirs.

WHERE TO PARK

Each sector says where to leave the car: on tarmac if there is any, and if it means a dirt track, it warns that a 4x4 is needed.

WITH ITS PROBABILITY

Each sector carries its own, and the ones with the most per km² go first.

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Step 4 · Sectors

From tasks to deployment

From the call to the first team deployed without leaving the same screen.

Step 5 · Deploy the team

One code. Everything the team needs to know.

The rescuer scans the QR of their task, or receives the link by WhatsApp when they start it, and takes the full dossier on their phone: no account and nothing to install.

01

Task map with its sector or itinerary

02

Photo and reference image of each missing person

03

Description, clothing, vehicle and accompanying animal

04

Medical alerts and expected behaviour

05

ICP location and phone number, and clues already found

06

GPX route for the GPS and, once finished, track upload

WhatsApp carries links, never the dossier. The instructions link expires on its own, so the dossier does not keep circulating afterwards.

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Step 5 · Deployment

Step 5 · Route and track by QR

The same QR, there and back.

Scan the QR on the sheet

Download the route for the GPS

Sweep

Upload the track

WHAT THE PAGE SHOWS

The whole task, on the phone

The task map, with the ICP
Findings, and clues with their photo
The tracks already uploaded
Your position, if you turn it on

WHAT THE TEAM DOES

Download and upload

Downloads the GPX route for its GPS
When done, uploads its track as GPX or KML
While the sweep is open or up to 12 hours later
Only that phone can delete what it uploaded

The QR printed on the instructions opens the page with no account and nothing to install. Every track stays on the operation map and in the reports.

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Step 5 · Track

Step 6 · Track the operation

Each task, with its status and its team.

Pending

In progress

Completed

no clues

with clues

victim located

A task is suspended, cancelled or aborted with a reason, and repeated as many times as needed. Its colour on the map changes with its status.

Start

Complete

Suspend

Cancel

Abort

Repeat

Reactivate

EVERY SORTIE RECORDS

Team and number of members

Person in charge and phone numbers

ICP location and phone number

Start and end times

Weather, filled in automatically

Outcome, clues and victims

Part searched, POD and the team's track

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Step 6 · Follow-up

Step 6 · Coverage priority

Every sweep counts.

WHEN A SWEEP CLOSES

Two questions: how much of the task was searched and, in what was searched, how likely it was to spot the person.

THE LIST REORDERS ITSELF

On top, what is in progress and what has clues. Then by priority: sectors by the probability left per km², routes by what is left to search.

NOTHING TO MEASURE

No measurements in the field, and each task's colour on the map follows its priority. If you change it by hand, it holds until the next closed sweep.

SECTOR S-4 · PROBABILITY THE PERSON IS THERE

AT THE START

From the missing person's statistics

10%

1ST SWEEP

75% searched × 60% chance to spot → POD 45%

5.5%

2ND SWEEP

All searched × 50% chance to spot → cumulative POD 72.5%

2.75%

Another sector of the same size still at 8% moves ahead.

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Step 6 · Priority

Step 6 · Clues and findings

Every finding is kept on the map.

With its type, date and time, and the task that found it.

Object

Something related to the missing person

Trace

A footprint or a sign of their passing

Witness

Someone says they saw them

Biological

A biological sample

When new clues arrive, SAR-OPS prompts you to review the last known position and the last sighting. And every located victim is kept with their location and status.

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Step 6 · Clues

Step 6 · Close the operation

When you close it, the report is already written.

Of the operation

Victims, reporting parties, tasks, the full map with the teams' tracks and the day-by-day timeline, with each victim's profile as an annex.

Of each task

Area or route, and every outing with its team, times, weather, what it found, its POD and its track.

Of each missing person

The full profile, with photo, ready to hand over or to file.

Task instructions

The dossier the team takes with them by QR or WhatsApp, with its route as GPX.

All in PDF, in the language of whoever downloads it and in their local time.

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Step 6 · Reports

Archive and administration

An organized archive, under control.

OPERATIONS PANEL

ACTIVE

Operation Collado Norte

2 victims · 1 found alive
6 tasks · 2 in progress

ID, name, place or victim

Date range

Status

Victims' status

Person in charge

Active tasks

Every closed operation stays available, with its map, its tasks and its reports.

ADMINISTRATION

Users and administrators

Each user sees their own operations; the administrator sees all.

Accounts that deactivate instantly

And their open sessions are closed on the spot.

Operation handover

If someone leaves the team, their work moves to another account.

Audit log

What was done to each account, by whom and when.

Key figures at a glance

Users, operations, tasks and victims located.

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Archive and administration

Access

Works wherever the team is.

A web app you install like an application: nothing to look for in a store, and the same version for everyone.

At the command post

Install it from Chrome, Edge or Safari and it opens in its own window, no digging through tabs.

On mobile

Add it to the home screen. Field teams only need the QR or the link, no account.

One-week sessions

A search lasting several days won't log you out halfway through the work.

In your language

Interface and reports in Spanish, English and Catalan, each user in their own.

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Access

Reliability and security

Built not to fail in the middle of a search.

IF SOMETHING FAILS

If OpenStreetMap doesn't respond

It tries another server or generates the minimum tasks, and alerts you.

If an update goes wrong

It rolls back to the previous version on its own, with nobody stepping in.

Over 2,900 tests

Automated: no change reaches the application without passing them.

SECURITY

Servers in the EU

Hosted in Frankfurt, with administration closed off from the internet.

Revocable sessions

Changing the password closes all open sessions.

Encrypted connection

HTTPS and signed links; the instructions link expires in one hour.

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Reliability and security

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Shall we try it on a real operation?

We show you SAR-OPS from start to finish with a complete case, and test it with your team in a pilot.

01 · DEMO

A complete operation

Registration, profile, area, tasks, QR, tracks and report, live.

02 · PILOT

With your team

You use it in your operations and tell us what's missing.

03 · CONTACT

SAR-OPS

info@saroperations.com · 681000250

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