Missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett is lost somewhere in 10,000 square miles of Nevada desert. A traditional and comprehensive rescue effort has been in progress for days, but it is difficult to know where to look for him because he did not file a flight plan.
An unorthodox group of searchers are approaching this problem from a non-traditional angle, using updated satellite imagery from Google Earth and a new Web service from Amazon called the Mechanical Turk. They hope to harness the wisdom of crowds to examine in detail images of all 10,000 square miles in hopes of locating the crash site and effecting a rescue of Fossett.
Very cool use of technology and satellite imagery.
Mechanical Turk hypes itself as artificial artificial intelligence where people can complete simple tasks that people do better than computers (and sometimes get paid for it).
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Using Google Earth to search for Steve Fosset
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