{"id":2907,"date":"2007-09-13T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2007-09-13T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T18:35:15","slug":"using-google-earth-to-search-for-steve-fosset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/using-google-earth-to-search-for-steve-fosset\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Google Earth to search for Steve Fosset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missing aviator and adventurer <strong>Steve Fossett<\/strong> 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.<br \/>\nAn unorthodox group of searchers are approaching this problem from a non-traditional angle, using updated satellite imagery from <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a> and a new Web service from Amazon called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mturk.com\/mturk\/welcome\">Mechanical Turk<\/a>. 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.<br \/>\nVery cool use of technology and satellite imagery.<br \/>\nMechanical 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).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mturk.com\/mturk\/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60\">Click here<\/a> to help with the search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/using-google-earth-to-search-for-steve-fosset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using Google Earth to search for Steve Fosset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-KT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}