Search Planning and Operations
Sartopo/Caltopo
Scent Theory
Sweep Width Studies
Chiacchia K, Scelza D. A Truncated Sweep Width Exercise: Obtaining Search Planning Data More Quickly and Comparing Sweep Width Values in Subjectively Similar Environments in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 2023 Nov;6(2):76-86.
Chiacchia KB, Houlahan HE. Deriving Objective Probability of Detection for Missing-Person Search: Validating Use of Effective Sweep Width and Associated Mathematical Models. Journal of Search and Rescue. 2023 Jan;6(1):1-36.
Chiacchia KB. Critical Separation Versus Effective Sweep Width: Bridging the Old and New Search-and-Rescue Worlds. Wilderness Environ Med. 2020 March;31(1):44-49.
Dog Teams