search radius

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search radius

In search and rescue operations, a radius centered on a datum point having a length equal to the total probable error plus an additional safety length to ensure a greater than 50 percent probability that the target is in the search area.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Pass one used a minimum of four and a maximum of 24 samples with a search radius of 50m, pass two used a maximum of 20 and a minimum of four samples with a search radius of 150m, the final pass used a maximum of 12 and a minimum of four samples with a search radius of 350m.
'Search radius is now 50 metres from the place the victim was believed to have fallen.
In order to prevent the rogue tourists from engaging in illegal activities, the NIA made every effort to mobilize four field brigades under its jurisdiction to carry out the manhunt by means of tracing cars, expanding the search radius, and investigating suspicious premises.
The most pressing reason for nutrition/nutraceutical brands to expand the search radius of their CMO exploration to consider legacy pharma portfolio CMOs revolves around quality control and assurance.
He appealed to families to remain calm and urged communities in areas within the search radius to volunteer information.
The location was used together with a search radius to identify all synthetic events whose tracks passed through both radii.
With progressively increasing the search radius, exact nearest neighbors of the query can be found [8].
Authorities had announced late Monday they were doubling the search radius to 100 nautical miles (equivalent to 185 kilometres) around the point where Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
In Formula (1), R refers the search radius of Area A, T is a search cycle, the whole search process consists of multiple search cycles T, [R.sub.s] is the perceived radius of node, [[theta].sub.0] and [z.sub.0] represent the angle and the initial position of axis z, respectively, and m and n represent integers.
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