Friday, September 14, 2007

It is hard to spot crashes in satellite imagery


















I wanted to see what an actual wreck site looks like in sat imagery. This is a Learjet 35A that crashed in New Hampshire in 1996.

If you zoom in on the coordinates you can see how hard it is to spot imagery. Look here on Google Maps



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I am still looking for a good crash site example in the western US. Any ideas?
-J

2 comments:

ctwardy said...

Good example. I was thinking that the nice high-contrast, intact airplane on the MTurk instructions was a bit too visible, compared to some demo crash site slides at SAR talks. Airplane? What airplane? I would like to get estimates of detection performance.

jido said...

Hey Charles
I have been looking for good crash site examples using the AFRCC report. Unfortunately the coords are a bit off so you really need to search through the imagery.
This would actually be a good mturk task
J