Issues

JSAR publications are freely available for viewing or download. Click on the links below to view/download individual articles or each full volume.

Volume 3, Issue 2 (full pdf)

• “Water Rescue within UKSAR: consent, capacity and necessity” Esler, Goodman and Wood
• “Optimizing Wilderness Search and Rescue: A Bayesian GIS Analysis” Rossmo, Velarde and Mahood
• “Gender Differences in the Journey to Suicide: Comparing distance decay functions of home and found locations in missing person reports to the police” Stevens, Giles and O’Brien

Volume 3, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial and content list
• “UAVs for Wilderness SAR: Real World Considerations & Technology Roadmap For Fixed Wing UAVs” Bashyam and Guggenheim

Volume 2, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• Editorial and content list
• “Raft on a high line: Loads and trim” Onions and Collins
• “Factors influencing the performance of visual distress signals” Bullough
• “Emergency Urban Search” Dourtchev, Witkowski, Mardell and Spence

Volume 1, Issue 1 (full pdf)

• “Auditory and Light Based Two-Way Effective Sweep Width for Responsive Search Subjects in New Zealand Mountainous Terrain” Koester, Wells, Gordon, and Tucker
• “Time Required For a Drowning Victim to Reach Bottom” Hunsucker and Davison
• “Analysis of urban search and rescue markings applied following the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake” Glassey

Volume 1, Issue 2 (full pdf)

• “Case study: perceived usability of emergency communication equipment with and without protective gloves in the cold” Jussila, Sormunen, and Remes.

Volume 1, Issue 3 (full pdf)

• • “Improving the performance of swift-water rescue quick release harnesses” Collins and Onions

• • “Evidentiary data collection from Global Positioning Systems: A qualitative study from a Queensland Police Search Coordinator’s perspective” Magnus

• • “Emotional intelligence, coping style, and social support as predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder” Kelly, Scott, and Bryan

• • Letter: “The use of twitter as an early warning system for terrestrial search and rescue” Greatbatch

• Book review: “A practitioner’s study: about rope rescue rigging” (Rhodes, 2014), Glassey