Ontario

Published purpose

The purpose of OVERSEE is to address the unique challenges of SAR in remote areas (such as indigenous communities in the Arctic and their immediate surrounding area) with UAS platforms. In order to do so, we must create SOP’s to facilitate UAS BVLOS usage for SAR, including SOP’s for Computer Vision (CV) techniques for SAR operations. To create the SOP’s, OVERSEE needs remote/isolated community SAR statistics from organizations who respond to SAR events. We seek the “where”, “when” and “what” details (i.e. lost hunter, capsized boat, spotted from CAF aircraft at 2000ft after 3 hours). This is added to a simulation engine along with new COTS UAS models for processing, outputting the most successful UAS SAR methods.