New Mexico Search and Rescue Support Team

Links

The following are some web sites that members of The New Mexico Search and Rescue Support Team have recommended.

Inclusion of a link on this site does not imply an official endorsement by the New Mexico Search and Rescue Support Team.

• SAR Organizations

  • The New Mexico Department of Public Safety Search and Rescue Program
  • Recognized SAR Teams --- from the DPS web site.
  • The New Mexico Emergency Services Council, the umbrella organization for New Mexico Search and Rescue teams.
  • The National Association for Search and Rescue, the umbrella organization for Search and Rescue teams across the US.

• Other SAR Teams

  • Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council.
  • Bernalillo County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES).
  • Cibola Search and Rescue.
  • Sandia Search Dogs.

• Amateur Radio Links

  • ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio.

• APRS Links

  • The new APRS Wiki is intended to be a one-stop shop for current recommendations about APRS, links to vendors and software packages, and general user education.
  • Bob Bruninga's Official APRS Site.
  • TAPR -- the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corp..
  • Xastir multi-platform APRS client and mapping software.
  • AGWPE Windows sound card packet engine from SV2AGW.
  • Byonics.com Tiny Trak encode-only APRS encoder kit and other APRS kits.

• GPS and Digital Mapping

  • NADCON is the official federal standard software for converting geographiccoordinates in NAD27 datum to NAD83 datum. There is a lot of good information there about what the conversion involves.
  • NOAA declination calculator.
  • iGage Mapping Products, makers of "All Topo Maps", a program used by most members of NM SAR Support for digital mapping.
  • New Mexico Search and Rescue Resources: digital copies of USGS topo maps covering New Mexico.
  • The National Atlas: On-line national atlas, from US Department of Interior. On-line maps, freely downloadable geospatial data, lots of good stuff.
  • The National Map: Seamless digital mapping data for entire US, with a slick viewer.
  • Aviation Toolbox: Freely-downloadable FAA Sectional aeronautical charts in (georeferenced) GeoTIFF format. Unfortunately these seem to have stopped updating sometime in mid 2005 --- until then they were being kept current.
  • GRASS GIS: Free, fully featured Geographic Information System.
  • USDA/USFS Cibola National Forest web site: Official web site for Cibola National Forest. Trailhead guides, news, ranger district information, downloadable geospatial data.
  • USGS Seamless Data Distribution System: Distribution center for USGS digital cartographic products, including digital elevation models, digital orthoimagery, and other useful data.

• SAR Vendors

  • CMC Rescue.