
It takes rescue teams 10 minutes to create a search plan. Every year, around 500,000 outdoor casualties occur. Once the plan is created, agents joining the search or dropping out slow the search. And there is a lack of effective image recognition.
Autonomy can eliminate all these problems for first responders. Drone swarms aren't just for rescuing hikers; they work on any terrain that human emergencies occur: beaches, floods, overboard victims, and low visibility events like sandstorms.
When someone goes missing outdoors, the first few hours dramatically impact survival probability. Valuable coverage time is lost during the most critical window.

Large-scale coordinated drone search has proven effective in defense scenarios. ClearCast brings that coordination capability into search and rescue, coordinating off-the-shelf aircraft already deployed by agencies.
ClearCast is a Command and control network software that coordinates multiple off-the-shelf drones as one search team, so rescuers can make a plan faster, find human signatures faster, and save lives faster.
Authorized drones can be linked into a coordinated network that generates optimized search plans for a rescue team. Use the fastest multi agent search pattern algorithms with a time bound deterministic waypoint trajectory plan. Gain the ability to add drones at any time from any direction.
Designed for operational control. Built for FAA-compliant deployment.

Mathematically Optimized Coverage Trajectories, Not Guessing Methods:
Previous drone search workflows rely on basic grid sweeps or an AI guessing method. ClearCast uses deterministic feedback control to compute efficient coverage paths over real terrain.
The result:
Step 1: A first responder pins the last known location of a missing person.
(Steps 2-5 are automated so that rescuers are now free to perform other activities than watching a screen.)
Step 2. ClearCast assigns nearby authorized drones
Step 3. The system computes terrain-aware search paths
Step 4: Drones execute search coverage semi-autonomously.
Step 5. New drones can be added at any time from any direction
Integrated detection software monitors live video feeds for human signatures, flags likely matches, and delivers video clips directly to response teams with their location.
Instead of reviewing hours of footage for tiny human signatures, rescue teams receive real time flagged clips for rapid verification, reducing review time and accelerating response.
We are funding a limited number of pilot deployments with qualified SAR units to save lives using coordinated swarm response.
Please reach us at johnlok@clearcastrescue.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
ClearCast Rescue is a Command & Control network for Search & Rescue, reducing response times 10x-100x via coordinated swarm response. It turns any number of drones and humans into one coordinated search team.
Our goal is simple: when someone’s life depends on being found fast, we make sure first responders have a swarm in the air before a family has to hear the words, "we were too late".
Our drone swarm control can be used in air, land, and sea.
Water Rescues – Aerial and naval drones
Land Rescue – Aerial drones and Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Naval Mine Sweeping - Underwater Autonomous Vehicles
Carrier Vanguard - Drop a batch every 10km to search for mines and subsurface threats with native obstacle avoidance. Dissertation was done on underwater robots.
Our search plans may not be ideal for surveillance, due to a number of hurdles. Our goal is to get live video feeds of missing persons to rescuers and family members in time-constrained scenarios.
Once rescued, the rescue team has full control over the data to delete at an appropriate time.
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