A SEARCH AND RESCUE SIMULATION MODEL (SARSIM)

The United States National Bureau of Standards and the United States Coast Guard, in a joint endeavor, have designed and developed an effective simulation model of the Coast Guard's complex Search and Rescue system. The Search and Rescue Simulation (SARSIM) simulates the operational selection of the preferred SAR resources to respond to each distress client; clients' needs for Coast Guard assistance vary widely, both in type and amount. The paper describes the SARSIM model, including some of its more interesting and flexible algorithms, some validation data and representative results of simulation exercises.(Author)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Available from Proceedings of AICA Symposium on Simulation of Complex Systems, Tokyo, Japan. 3-7 September 1971. pp I-4/1-I-4/8. Request price.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Bureau of Standards

  Department of Commerce
  Washington, DC  United States  20234
• Authors:
  • Karp, S S
  • Matteson, T T
  • Maltese, M D
• Publication Date: 1971

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Distress alerting systems; Search and rescue operations; Simulation
• Old TRIS Terms: Search techniques
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00041476
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Int Rpt
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 2 1973 12:00AM