A ham radio amateur here locally apparently fell off a trail and broke his femur (from our local radio net)
Phone did not work (out of battery or out of service).
Garmin Inreach was not charged (out of battery)
Handheld radio with GPS worked, so he was able to call out for help on 146.520 and was rescued. 
Well, that's definitely a lesson to keep in mind if you are e-biking in remote areas....
"According to the group, a female biker faced major complications after her e-bike battery died in a remote area. This resulted in the woman being stranded in the desert for 30 hours, pushing her bike 20 miles before she ended up being located and rescued deep in the park."
The ongoing chaos in the USA is making search and rescue efforts more difficult. More subjects and some volunteers are going to be more likely to die as a result.
#SearchandRescue #SAR
@Silly_GooberHappy birthday gift for @metawastaken.bsky.social
U r still a stimken rebel tho...
Cold case, missing persons
Looks like they might have found a long missing family that drove into the Columbia River in 1958. #SearchAndRescue #SAR #MissingPerson https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/car-recovery-mission-linked-family-missing-1958-119548274?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Greg Cocks @GregCocks@techhub.socialA Methodology For The Multitemporal Analysis Of Land Cover Changes And Urban Expansion Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery - A Case Study Of The Aburrá Valley In Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030554 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #remotesensing #multitemporalanalysis #landcover #landcoverchange #clustering #kurtosis #fuzzylogic #kernelbasedmethod #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geostatistics #model #modeling #AburráValley #Columbia #urban #urbanexpansion #population #growth #topography #monitoring #satellite #sentinel #valley #landuse #distribution #infrastructure #building #roads #naturalresources #environmental #conservation #monitoring #multitemporal
KREM2 (ABC): Hikers, climbers could have increased danger after National Parks layoffs
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caGet an inReach device if you're in the backcountry!
Budget-Minded Synthetic Aperture Radar Takes to the Skies - Unless you work for the government or a large corporation, constrained designs are... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/budget-minded-synthetic-aperture-radar-takes-to-the-skies/ #syntheticapertureradar #patchantenna #polarization #dronehacks #radiohacks #drone #fpgs #dsa #sar #uav
@sunguramy@flipping.rocksI am so glad I left the first canine search team I joined.
I just found a puppy Edraith video in the archives of an early run with them. She found really nicely, even alerted (she was *only four months old* and already building alert) but because, "once your dog starts coming to alert, they never get rewarded by the hider, only you" meant that there was ZERO value for the hider - aka 'missing person'.
This meant that although she had a wonderful find - alert chain, there was zero refind, because a) she had no idea what to do and b) no point in taking me back to a person who isn't rewarding her anyway. The entire thing started to break down within weeks; and this argument along with a few others I was having with the team leads meant I quit.
About 18 months later we found a new team, and after undoing a bunch of bad habits that were created due to simple lack of reinforcement, rebuilding the alert, and then properly chaining in the refind, we did succeed!
All this to say: the answer for "To reward or not to reward?" the answer is always YES - reward!
If you like something, reward it!
AP: Freezing hikers stuck in waist-deep snow rescued during Mount Washington whiteout https://apnews.com/article/mount-washington-rescue-snow-0f5fa5d1cf442e22caa0beecd9ec766a
10 YEARS OF CIVIL SEA RESCUE
10 YEARS OF SOLIDARITY
10 YEARS OF REPRESSION
We refuse this deadly and unjust border regime! We refuse and resist against deportations and detention, against push backs and the criminalization of migration.
Migrant deaths are not a fatality!
Freedom of movement is a possibility, we saw it, and we see it every day in the cracks of Europe's borders!
Read the whole joint statement:
https://mvlouisemichel.org/press/
@kkarhan@infosec.space@firefoxx66 it also means #logistics for #research espechally in the #Antarctic will have to be canceled and bases be mothballed right during the main season if work!
Pretty shure @awi and other research institutions kinda counted on being able to cooperate with the #NSF and just pay for #infrastructure co-use when shipping stuff...
Pretty shure @AuswaertigesAmt didn't have that issue on their agenda, cuz the last thing they wanna do is #SAR people off #Neumayer3...
Death, 101 Freeway in Camarillo, SAR
Poor woman either had car issues or a medical issue, wandered off the side of the freeway, found dead here after multiple searches... found by the Search and Rescue helicopter on Friday. (ps. not all the facts are correct on the story here in the Acorn, particularly on how long before she was found. They are just citing what they were told, but the story at the SAR team is different. No foul play believed involved all around, however.)
https://www.toacorn.com/articles/body-found-near-101-south-near-camarillo-springs-road/
Stevens Pass helicopter hoist after skiers injured on a steep slope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsBIl5HNBrk #SAR #SearchAndRescue #Copter
The Louise Michel is back at sea
Our crew assisted a boat with 30 people on board
Yesterday evening the Louise Michel departed from Sicily towards the Central Mediterranean. During the night our crew was alerted by the civil emergency hotline @alarm_phone about an overcrowded boat south of Lampedusa.
On the way there our crew found a wooden boat with 20-30 people on it and stayed until #guardiadifinanza za took over and brought everyone safely to #Lampedusa.
Meanwhile tragically another boat in distress, spotted and alerted by #frontex , has most likely been intercepted.
Frontex has been proven to be involved in illegal interceptions and pushing people back to #Libya.
The Louise Michel continues sailing in this area and is ready to assist.
Solidarity and Resistance
Death Valley National Park: Park Rangers Rescue Man in Steep Gully
"...Two men from Belgium had set out for a short hike in Mosaic Canyon. At a canyon junction, the pair decided to split up. One hiker stayed on the main trail, while the other ventured into a side canyon, planning to loop back to the trail further up.
However, the side canyon grew steeper and more unstable as the hiker climbed, eventually leaving him unable to proceed further or safely descend. He was stranded about ½ mile from the trail wearing only a t-shirt and carrying no extra clothing, food, or water. "
https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/sar-2025-01-15.htm #SearchAndRescue #SAR #DeathValleyNationalPark
