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After 4 h 31 min of analysis the system detected him and returned his coordinates. He was lying unconscious in grass over two meters tall after more than 24 hours outdoors. GOPR rescuers carried him out and handed him to the ambulance service. No cited source gives the day of the find outright. 29 June follows from the 28 June 4 pm departure and the GOPR communique quoted by Świat Dronów. 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He was found and handed to the ambulance service alive." }, { "group": "organizational", "depth": 2, "reason": "GOPR Bieszczady closed a search that police, dogs and ground teams had not resolved, in what it called the first such find in Poland." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "The CNN detector returned the man's coordinates after police and tracking dogs had failed. Rescuers then retrieved him. Three of the five case-report authors work for SARUAV Ltd., so the independent confirmation is the GOPR Bieszczady account quoted in the Polish press." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "case report", "citation": "Niedzielski, T., Jurecka, M., Miziński, B., Pawul, W., Motyl, T. (2021). First Successful Rescue of a Lost Person Using the Human Detection System: A Case Study from Beskid Niski (SE Poland). 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Polski system SARUAV uratował życie zaginionemu mężczyźnie.", "title": "Polski system SARUAV uratował życie zaginionemu mężczyźnie", "url": "https://www.swiatdronow.pl/polski-system-saruav-uratowal-zycie-zaginionemu-mezczyznie", "date": "2021-06-30", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Po prawie 24 godzinach od zginięcia program wskazał potencjalnego poszukiwanego" }, { "kind": "press release", "citation": "University of Wrocław (n.d.). Another missing person found using the SARUAV system. uwr.edu.pl.", "title": "Another missing person found using the SARUAV system", "url": "https://uwr.edu.pl/en/another-missing-person-found-using-the-saruav-system/", "date": null, "written_by": "makers", "quote": "the world's first automatic detection of a missing person on aerial imagery taken from a drone" } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "Nadir drone imagery at close range over the search area", "CNN detector run during the search, with rescuers able to verify hits and reach the coordinates" ], "must_hold": [ "The person is within the imaged area and visible from above", "Processing completes while the person can still be helped" ], "echoes": [ { "date": "2024-08-01", "setting": "Sand in Taufers area, South Tyrol, Italy, “beginning of August 2024” (first day of month used): Bergrettungsdienst im Alpenverein Südtirol drone team used SARUAV to find a missing person, deceased, in terrain helicopters had searched; reported by the developer's university (University of Wrocław), not an independent source", "model_version": null, "outcome": "recurred", "source": "https://uwr.edu.pl/en/another-missing-person-found-using-the-saruav-system/" } ] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "SARUAV finds an unconscious 65-year-old alive in tall grass", "metric": "After 4 h 31 min of analysis the system detected him and returned his coordinates", "comparator": { "against": "the ground search by police officers and rescuers with tracking dogs, which had failed", "before": "Psy zgubiły trop (the dogs lost the scent); police and rescuers could not find him", "after": "Po prawie 24 godzinach od zginięcia program wskazał potencjalnego poszukiwanego (after almost 24 hours the program indicated the probable missing person)", "basis": "measured", "quote": "Burza, która przeszła nad terenem gdzie zgubił się chory 65-letni mężczyzna, utrudniła poszukiwania. 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Pomogła nowoczesna technologia i to w ostatniej chwili, bo mężczyzna leżał w ponad dwumetrowych zaroślach bez ruchu.", "url": "https://www.se.pl/rzeszow/bieszczady-pierwszy-raz-w-polsce-dron-odnalazl-zagubionego-czlowieka-galeria-aa-Lokr-ga7B-yzAt.html" }, "later": null, "value": null, "developer_country": "Poland", "deployer_country": "Poland", "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Record drafted from the cited sources.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Added to the account that the 29 June date is derived from the 28 June departure and the GOPR communique rather than stated outright in any source, and dated the Świat Dronów report 30 June 2021 from its page metadata; the August 2024 echo keeps its disclosed first-of-month placeholder because dates must be full ISO days.", "source": "https://www.swiatdronow.pl/polski-system-saruav-uratowal-zycie-zaginionemu-mezczyznie", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Benefit type set to Improved Physical Health under Trustible's full taxonomy of 23 types; it was Improved Organizational Efficiency among the six first used.", "source": "https://trustible.ai/post/a-framework-for-measuring-the-benefits-of-ai/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Added what the benefit is measured against, the model version from the cited sources.", "source": "https://www.se.pl/rzeszow/bieszczady-pierwszy-raz-w-polsce-dron-odnalazl-zagubionego-czlowieka-galeria-aa-Lokr-ga7B-yzAt.html; https://www.swiatdronow.pl/polski-system-saruav-uratowal-zycie-zaginionemu-mezczyznie", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer and the deployer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://www.saruav.pl/; https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupa_Bieszczadzka_GOPR", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: three independent news reports, the makers' case report and the makers' press release. 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