Night vision goggles will not help with that type of search, all NVG?s do is amplify ambient light (natural and man made), turning the night to a green day. The device that will help with detecting body heat is an Infrared scope. Most military and some police aircraft are equipped with a FLIR or forward looking infrared camera that displays heat contrast on a video screen, even some of our air to ground and air to air missiles are equipped with this technology. However, they are limited as to the depth of earth and water that they can see through. We have used this technology to find people buried in shallow graves, and in the search for drowning victims that are still below the surface. It is not likely that we could see anything buried as deep as you suggest.
But we do rule the night.