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On a related note, sea search & rescue still primarily relies on spotters looking out the windows trying to see something. Seems like a place where pattern rec
by Someone1234 8y ago
On a related note, sea search & rescue still primarily relies on spotters looking out the windows trying to see something.
Seems like a place where pattern recognition could be an asset, even if it just supplements rather than replaces a spotter. Or heck, send a Google Maps-style image to land, and let volunteers flag points of interest.
- jcrawfordor 8y agoThere's a couple of different services that are taking a "Mechanical Turk" approach to this problem right now. Probably the largest is Tomnod, which has had volunteers classify objects in satellite images for both SAR and humanitarian tasks: https://www.tomnod.com/ https://www.tomnod.com/