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Missing 411
2017 · Film · documentary · 98 min
Directed by Benjamin Paulides, Michael DeGrazier
Based on the book series by David Paulides, an investigation into the many disappearances that have occurred in National Parks and Forests of the United States and elsewhere over several decades.
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Let's don't get ourselves lost in the maze of arguments here.
The big picture is, if you give the rescue team a good tool, their success rate will then increase, sometime by a big number.
There is a documentary about children missing in the woods called Missing 411 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEA9-mEOZtA). If you take look their search efforts, it is not hard to realize how many weight can be lifted by an automatic area scanning system.
In the documentary, the search and rescue team had to walk step by step doing almost blind searches. If you have an automatic system, you can just launch a scanning array of say 50 drones, very quickly the data will come in and provide indications on where the search effort should be prioritized.
Bottom line is, such system is better than the current (human manual search) one. If the technology can be properly developed and utilized, it can help save more lives.