FamilyGal
09-13-2007, 05:48 PM
Help Search for Fossett from Your Computer
You can join the search for NESA President Steve Fossett by using your computer to study recent satellite images of the area where the adventurer disappeared September 3. To sign up to help, visit www.mturk.com and follow the instructions and text link near the top of the page. The site requests volunteers age 18 or older.
After registering, the Web site will assign you an image of a 278-foot- square section of the 6,000 square miles being searched in Nevada. After studying the image, you simply click "yes" or "no" as to whether there is any sign of Fossett's airplane that might warrant further investigation in that section. Anything larger than two or three feet will appear in the image, and instructions and examples help you better determine what you are viewing. The flagged images are passed to the search team coordinating the flights over the area.
Here is some information from the www.mturk.com site so that you can see the procedures:
Background
On Monday, September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada . An airplane he was flying failed to return. No one has any idea where he is.
Through the generous efforts of individuals at several organizations, detailed satellite imagery has been made available for his last known whereabouts.
Instructions
You will be shown a single satellite image. The task is to flag any satellite images which contain foreign objects that may resemble Steve's airplane or parts of a plane. Steve's plane will show up as a regular object with sharp edges, white or nearly white, about 21 pixels long and 30 pixels in wingspan.
Notes
If in doubt, be conservative and mark the image. For complete coverage, we've set up this HIT such that multiple people will cover the same area several times over. Please do your best, but do not worry that missing one little detail will be tragic. It will get caught.
Marked images will be sent to a team of specialists who will determine if they contain information on the whereabouts of Steve Fossett.
Friends and family of Steve Fossett would like to thank you for helping them with this cause.
Viewing in Google Earth
If you wish to view images in additional detail, you can pull them up in Google Earth. To do that you must:
· Download and Install Google Earth.
· Open the following KML file: http://s3.amazonaws .com/fossett/ geoeye-color. kml
· Cut and paste the co-ordinates found next to the image tile below into the "Fly To" box in the top left corner of Google Earth.
· For the best experience, you will likely want to turn OFF terrain by unchecking the "Terrain" box under Layers in the lower left corner of Google Earth
You can join the search for NESA President Steve Fossett by using your computer to study recent satellite images of the area where the adventurer disappeared September 3. To sign up to help, visit www.mturk.com and follow the instructions and text link near the top of the page. The site requests volunteers age 18 or older.
After registering, the Web site will assign you an image of a 278-foot- square section of the 6,000 square miles being searched in Nevada. After studying the image, you simply click "yes" or "no" as to whether there is any sign of Fossett's airplane that might warrant further investigation in that section. Anything larger than two or three feet will appear in the image, and instructions and examples help you better determine what you are viewing. The flagged images are passed to the search team coordinating the flights over the area.
Here is some information from the www.mturk.com site so that you can see the procedures:
Background
On Monday, September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada . An airplane he was flying failed to return. No one has any idea where he is.
Through the generous efforts of individuals at several organizations, detailed satellite imagery has been made available for his last known whereabouts.
Instructions
You will be shown a single satellite image. The task is to flag any satellite images which contain foreign objects that may resemble Steve's airplane or parts of a plane. Steve's plane will show up as a regular object with sharp edges, white or nearly white, about 21 pixels long and 30 pixels in wingspan.
Notes
If in doubt, be conservative and mark the image. For complete coverage, we've set up this HIT such that multiple people will cover the same area several times over. Please do your best, but do not worry that missing one little detail will be tragic. It will get caught.
Marked images will be sent to a team of specialists who will determine if they contain information on the whereabouts of Steve Fossett.
Friends and family of Steve Fossett would like to thank you for helping them with this cause.
Viewing in Google Earth
If you wish to view images in additional detail, you can pull them up in Google Earth. To do that you must:
· Download and Install Google Earth.
· Open the following KML file: http://s3.amazonaws .com/fossett/ geoeye-color. kml
· Cut and paste the co-ordinates found next to the image tile below into the "Fly To" box in the top left corner of Google Earth.
· For the best experience, you will likely want to turn OFF terrain by unchecking the "Terrain" box under Layers in the lower left corner of Google Earth