Comment by vzaliva
6 months ago
Satellite SOS, recently introduced in iPhone and Google Pixel phones, will help a lot with lost hiker cases. However, drone-based search will still be useful in case the hiker broke the phone or is too incapacitated to use it.
There's another pretty common case: children who get lost somehow or decide to go on walks by their own and don't find their way back home but seek shelter wherever they can.
I'm training for drone-based SAR at the German THW (Technical Relief Agency) at the moment, and that's probably going to be the majority of usecases.