Team Awareness Kit

Incident Guide – Remote Area Rescue

SECTION: TAK
DATE: 03-2022
 Training Objectives
• Provide guidance for using ATAK on a Remote Area
Rescue incident.
• The FireWeb training manual section for TAK has an extensive
video library as well as interactive tool to further your knowledge
on the tools outlined in this guide.
 Remote Area Rescue
• The immediate challenge to a remote area rescue is getting an accurate victim
location
– Many times the patient is located on a trail without a detailed way of describing their location
– Many times they are lost
– GPS Coordinates delivered by a cell phone caller are a great tool to use to mark where a
patient location is.
• The Corona Dispatch receives GPS location on cell phone calls with a varying degree of accuracy
with its current system.
• The Coordinate Format from 911 calls is in the DD aka Degree Decimal format.
• Corona Dispatch can pass that information on to you at request in the call notes.
 Marking a victim on the map

• There are two main scenarios and tools used to mark a position in ATAK
– You may be tasked with marking a position based on a GPS location relayed from
dispatch to go find that location
– You may be searching for a lost hiker without a defined GPS location and when you
locate them want to mark and share that location with other users.

– Go To tool – Used to mark a known location

– Point Dropper tool – Can both mark a known location or freehand

 Go To Tool
• The Go To tool is a manual entry tool for placing a marker on the map with a known coordinate or address

Select DD Format (or matching format if different) Double tap .- button use the negative symbol
Select the Go To tool Choose a Marker Icon, Click on Lat & Long lines to When finished click on the back/down arrow or
enter coordinates
click “Next” until it reads “Done”

Press “Pull from DTED” to get elevation then Click Marker is placed on map
Ok to place marker on Map
 Point Dropper Tool

• The Point Dropper tool allows you to pick any number of icon sets as your marker.
• The first step when using this tool is to select a marker.
 Point Dropper Tool – Changing Markers

• To change marker icons click on the Marker Title for drop down list or swipe to the
left to scroll through the Icon Pallets.
 Point Dropper Tool – Changing Markers

• An alternative method is to swipe to the left to scroll through the Icon Pallets.
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 Point Dropper Tool

• The Point Dropper tool has two options for placing the marker on the map.
– Option 1 - You can tap on the map where you would like to put the marker
• This will be used when you are searching for someone without a known location and when you locate them
identifying their location
– Option 2 – Long press anywhere on the map and manually enter the coordinates just.
• This is the identical process at the “Go To” tool.
• Choose the correct format for the coordinates given
• Cell phone caller coordinates from dispatch will be in the DD format
 Custom Labeling Marker

Click on the marker to bring

up the radial menu Click on the More Info Button Click on the marker label

Edit the default marker label also called a call sign, when finished click the Done button
 Adding Remarks

Scroll down to the Remarks section

Click on the More Info Button click on pencil icon to add

Add remarks then click done

 Broadcasting Marker Location to all users

Click on the More Info menu

Click on the Send button Click on Broadcast button to send to all

ATAK users

The Broadcast tool shares data information to all ATAK users

 Sending Marker Location to Selected Users

Click on the More Info menu

Click on the Send button Click on each user you would like to
send the information to then click the
“Send” button
The Send tool shares data information to selected ATAK
users
 Send to Groups

Select a Group to send the data to

 Send to Teams

Select an entire teams to send the data to

 Sending Marker Location to Data Sync Mission

Click on the More Info menu

Click on the Send button Click on “Feeds” Choose the Data Sync
Mission and click send
 Changing Marker Location: Edit

• Editing a marker location

– Example of use; you receive updated lat and long location.
– You can edit the marker location by pressing on the marker to activate the radial menu; then
press the more info button
• Click on the position location
• Update the location and press ok
• Click on Send then Broadcast to send the update to all users
• If maker is part of a data sync mission then it will update to all subscribers
 Changing Marker Location: Drag or Tap Method

• Manually changing a marker location

– Example of use; you locate the victim and the reported location that the marker was
generated on is different from where you found the victim.
– You can update the marker pressing and holding on the marker
• An instruction will pop up directing you to drag or tap the marker to change the location
• Simply drag to or tap on your location on the map and then use the Send/Broadcast feature to update all users.
 Tracking Users

• During a search tracking the user can help identify areas/paths that have been
searched.
• Click on the user to activate the radial menu
• At the 2 o’clock position click on the Track button
– The button will become highlighted in the color of the team
– This will continue to track the user until you turn it off
 Deleting Marker

• To delete the marker after the incident click on the marker which will activate the
radial menu
• At the 6 o’clock position click on the trash can to delete the marker
• If the object is part of a Data Sync mission you will be prompted to removed from
your device only or to remove from mission.
• See next slide for removing from all TeamConnect connected users.
Send to OSCAR-TC – Delete object from TeamConnect Sit(x) Server

– If you used the Broadcast method to send data other users in a TeamConnect Sit(x) server and
you wish to remove it from all connected users devices you can send the object to a user named
“OSCAR-TC”
– When you send to OSCAR-TC it will delete it from all users that are in the same TeamConnect
group.
– If that same map object is in a Data Sync Mission you will get a prompt if you want to also remove
it from the Data Sync Mission
– See the CFD Training Catalog for a separate presentation on Data Sync
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