Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens 2 hours after take-off on Saturday 8th March 2014. The Boeing 777 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board when it vanished. It’s assumed that the plane has crashed into the ocean, but so far no trace of it has been found. To help locate the wreckage, the US company DigitalGlobe has uploaded some of their commercial satellite imagery to a crowdsourcing platform. Volunteers can scour 1,988 square miles of territory at the conflux of the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea and tag objects of interest using special icons – raft, oil slick, wreckage. When DigitalGlobe conducted a similar campaign after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in November 2013, there were 60,000 map views in the first 24 hours. With flight MH370, 6 million views were logged in the same time frame and the website crashed. You can get tagging here: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014?source=malaysia
Response to Malaysian jet disaster takes crowdsourcing past the tipping point
Created on
14 March 2014, 13:06, by
Steve Beard