Search wider in the first night.
Most land searches end quickly. The long ones are where the search area grows every hour and the night gets colder. ORCA flies the most likely areas first with every drone available, and keeps one over the person once they’re found, so the field team can walk straight in.
From what your team does today, to what the fleet does for it.
The work is capped by headcount
- One thermal drone covers one slice of the search area at a time.
- Helicopters are costly and can’t always fly at night.
- The search area grows faster than teams on foot can cover it.
One operator, the whole fleet
- Every likely area is searched at once, through the night.
- A find is marked from above until the field team arrives.
- Cleared segments show on the map, not in a radio log.
Why this job needs more than one drone.
A fleet earns its place when there’s too much ground for the time available, when coverage can’t have a gap, or when people are the limit.
The first night matters
Cold and time work against the person. A fleet covers more of the likely ground while it counts.
Mark the find, keep searching
One drone stays over the person. The rest keep searching until the find is confirmed on the ground.
One operator, every drone
Every available drone can fly without needing a pilot each.
Answers your team can act on.
Not hours of footage. Each output goes straight into the systems you already use.
Who it’s for
- Police search coordinators
- LandSAR teams
- Incident controllers
Night flying and flights beyond line of sight need additional approval from the aviation regulator. Search operations can run with a certified operator.
Segment status
Live layerWhich segments are cleared, by what, and how thoroughly.
Find record
Thermal + locationThe find, its image, coordinates and who confirmed it.
Search log
For the reportEvery drone’s track and every decision.
Hand-over
For the field teamCoordinates and the route in.
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See ORCA on work like yours.
Tell us about the ground you look after and where it’s hardest to cover. We’ll walk you through how a fleet would run it, and what a first trial could look like.