An agent-based model reveals lost person behavior based on data from wilderness search and rescue

Abstract Thousands of people are reported lost in the wilderness in the United States every year and locating these missing individuals as rapidly as possible depends on coordinated search and rescue (SAR) operations. As time passes, the search area grows, survival rate decreases, and searchers are...

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Main Authors: Amanda Hashimoto, Larkin Heintzman, Robert Koester, Nicole Abaid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09502-4