RECCO
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Key facts
- Company.name
- RECCO AB
- Company.logo
- RECCO logo.png
- Company.founder
- Magnus Granhed
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Fredrik Steinwall (CEO)
- Company.founded
- 1983
- Company.location
- Lidingö, Sweden
- Radio.display_name
- RECCO detector
- Radio.category
- harmonic radar reflector
- Radio.function
- search and rescue
- Radio.uses_battery
- no
- Radio.portable
- yes
- Radio.two_way
- no
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- The system
- The reflector
- The handheld detector
- Rescue applications
- Avalanche rescue
- Outdoor rescue
- Other applications
- References
- External links
RECCO is a rescue technology used by organised rescue teams as an additional tool to more quickly locate people buried by an avalanche or lost in the outdoors. The system is based on a harmonic radar system and composed of a detector and a passive reflector integrated into outdoor clothing and gears.
==History== The RECCO rescue technology was developed by Magnus Granhed, in response to his personal experience with a fatal avalanche accident in Åre, Sweden, in 1973. Starting in the winter of 1978–1979, Granhed collaborated with Bengt Enander's team at the Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to develop an avalanche rescue system, using the principle of harmonic radar.
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