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Ask HN: Is it possible to write a program to scan the blue seas for MH370?
Just heard in the news that the search for the missing MH370 has now shifted 3000kms to the south west of Perth. I wonder if somebody can write a script that can scan the blue seas across the Indian ocean and adjoining seas to come up with all locations that are not blue in color. Yes, there will be a lot of false positives like ships and other debris, but if we can use this script to reduce the workload to a few thousand datapoints, we should once for all know if the plane crashed or is now elsewhere.
- DanielStraight 13y agoAnd clouds, and wave caps, and noise in the input data, and natural variations in ocean color... I think your estimate of the number of false positives is off by several orders of magnitude.
- esdailycom 13y agoMakes sense. In that case, would scanning the sea for hues of red work? The MH370 has a pretty prominent red strip along its body. If we can scan for this color, then it could be a more practical search.