For Search and Rescue teams

Drone search and rescue software

Eagle Eyes helps drone teams find missing people faster. It watches the live video with you while you fly, puts the drone and what it finds on your team's CalTopo map, shares the view with whoever needs it, and lets you go back through every frame after the flight.

Eagle Eyes is trusted by more than 150 teams worldwide: Search and Rescue teams, police and sheriff drone units, fire departments and emergency management agencies. We build it with teams in the field, and what operators tell us after a callout is what we work on next.

Notice what a tired pair of eyes misses

• The Eagle Eyes detector flags colour and motion anomalies in the live drone video, in real time, while the pilot flies
• It looks for anomalies, not shapes, so it can flag a person who is only partly visible under trees or in rocks
• Works on visual and thermal imagery. On thermal it picks out motion while the drone hovers, and small objects warmer than their surroundings
• Several detector modes for different conditions, and Hypersensitive mode to review detections below the reporting threshold afterwards

See it on real imagery in the computer vision demos.

Search systematically, not by eye

• Automated grid, line, corridor and polygon search missions in Eagle Eyes Pilot, saved and reusable, with KMZ export
• Terrain-following missions that hold a set height above ground from valley floor to ridgeline
• Autonomous missions on DJI Enterprise aircraft and on the DJI Mini 3, Mini 3 Pro and Mini 4 Pro

Everyone on one map

• The drone's live position goes onto your team's CalTopo map while it flies, so search managers see where it is and where it has been
• Full-resolution photo points land on the map during the flight, not after it
• The livestream is a clickable link on the drone in CalTopo, so anyone on the map can watch
• The pilot flies with reference to the assigned search areas and the rest of the team
• More on this: CalTopo drone integration

Share what the drone sees

• Livestream the drone's video, position and detections to people on scene or anywhere in the world
• Free on local Wi-Fi for up to 3 viewers. Viewers need no account
• More on this: drone livestreaming

Review every frame after the flight

• Eagle Eyes Mirada takes photos and video from any drone, places them on the map, and runs the same detector over all of it
• The Mosaic view lays every detection out as thumbnails you can sort by confidence, time or colour
• Runs on Windows, macOS and in a browser, and works with no internet connection

Safe skies with several aircraft up

• Airspace awareness for the operator, with nearby drone alerts when several crews work the same incident
• Track every drone live against your search areas, with position, altitude and battery
• See drones broadcasting Remote ID, whether or not they run Eagle Eyes

Teams using it

Also: Deschutes County SAR's drone program and La Plata County SAR's drone playbook.

Common questions