ABSTRACT
This chapter is primarily concerned with searching, detecting, and locating sources on the ground or above it. In general, only rough guidelines can be given to handlers because weather, terrain, vegetation, and other factors can be highly variable over time and distance and can act independently and in concert to produce a myriad of confounding effects for the search dog team. The handler needs to be continually alert and flexible to changes in the weather, especially wind and physical settings, while searching to thoroughly cover their search area (i.e. to place their dogs downwind and within scenting range of all potential source locations). These skills need to be developed and maintained during training.
