Purpose-built utilities for public-safety drone programs: BVLOS communications planning, FAA compliance context, and doctrine-standard search-pattern generation — inside the same ATAK plugin as the rest of your mission data.
Generate doctrine-standard aerial search patterns directly on the ATAK map, parameterized for your aircraft and sensor:
| Pattern | Best For | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Expanding Square | Point-last-seen searches expanding outward from a datum | ✓ Wired |
| Sector | High-probability datum with drift or direction uncertainty | ✓ Wired |
| Orbit | Persistent overwatch of a fixed point or structure | ✓ Wired |
| Grid / Linear | Area sweeps | Roadmap — honest no-op until wired |
Beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations live or die on the comms plan. The suite provides structured BVLOS communications planning support — link considerations, contingency communication procedures, and the coordination context a remote pilot in command needs before requesting a BVLOS operation.
Compliance references for public-safety UAS operations are available on device — Part 107 considerations, COA context, and operational checklists that stay accessible when the operation area has no coverage. Roadmap items such as automated failover / return-to-home command integration are honesty-gated: the plugin will not claim a failover capability it cannot execute.
A county sheriff's UAS team launches on a missing hiker: the SAR module logs the LKP and sectors, the UAS suite generates an Expanding Square pattern from the datum, and the whole picture — sectors, pattern, clues — is broadcast over CoT to every ATAK device in the incident, including the command post.