ground search
On-foot investigation effort
A ground search is an organized effort to find someone or something by physically covering terrain on foot, as opposed to searching from aircraft or using remote methods.
Search and rescue teams conduct ground searches for missing hikers, while police may organize ground searches for evidence or fugitives: Volunteers joined the ground search for the lost child.
- rescueSave from harm
- missing personUnlocated person sought by authorities
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- tracking dogsCanines trained to follow scents
- sweepBrush clean with broom
terrain · footprints · dogs · canine · missing · last seen · comb · comb through · grid · grid pattern · volunteers · on foot · helicopter · debris · survivors · brush · wilderness · traces
- missing personsmissing person, disappearance, missing children, missing child, vanished
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