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Wednesday, September 12. 2007

NPR Covers Fossett Search, Taps Directions' Editor

Remote Sensing Directions Magazine

Dan Charles of NPR followed up on the use of satellite imagery to search for Steve Fossett's plane or any sign of him in the Nevada desert (text and audio are available). The story, which runs on Morning Edition nationally, includes quotes from an Amazon rep and me. The one interesting new bit for those following the effort: Charles calculates imagery for the area to be searched (based on a price quote from GeoEye) might have run $100,000.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing, Sensors, Directions Magazine at 07:13 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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Adena,

You're a rock star! Heard your animated discussion with Charles on NPR this morning. It is a very sad situation that this is surrounding the possible loss of Steve Fossett's life, but it is interesting to see more democratization of the use of mapping and imagery. We may be seeing the dawning of a new age of similar rescue efforts. I wouldn't be surprised to see 4 or 5 such searches in the next 12-18 months now.

In a sense, this amplifies your later post today on data warehousing and the resurgence in location awareness and more accessible tools that can take advantage of the "embedded location signal" in most data.
#1 Jim Pollock (Link) on 2007-09-12 11:06 (Reply)
Great job on NPR this morning. I really enjoyed hearing you speak, it made my day.
#2 Matt Priour (Link) on 2007-09-12 20:37 (Reply)
Very interesting story - esp. distributed examination. I've been interested in distributed computation for image processing, similar to SETI@home -- and adding human inspection to such an operation is intriguing. Thanks for bringing this work to NPR.
#3 Alex Brown (Link) on 2007-09-13 05:20 (Reply)

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