You Might Help Find Steve Fossett
September 8, 2007
You Might Help Find Steve Fossett
By Russ Niles, Editor-in-Chief
The search for Steve Fossett may get some potent help from above today, and you might be able to help. DigitalGlobe, which supplies many of the images from space for Google Earth, is expected to have fresh imagery of the search area today sometime and that might enable the activation of something called the Amazon Mechanical Turk. Essentially, as the images of the area are made available, anyone with a computer can conduct a pixel-by-pixel search for Fossett. The system is set up to allow masses of humans, able to differentiate objects (like airplane wreckage on a mountainside) and make judgment calls that computers don't do well. (Go here to help.)