www.globalxplorer.org
Sarah Parcak finds all kinds of shit underground by looking at satellite imagery (see NatGeo vid). She won a bunch of prize money from TEDx and used it to build a platform to crowdsource her efforts to sort through large numbers of pictures, thus helping her to find even more shit.
The platform just went live a couple of weeks ago. I haven't spent the time going through the tutorial yet but it seems like they have some kind of algorithm that weighs your judgment against others. The more your analysis matches the numerical consensus for any given image, the higher your rating score climbs which, in turn, weighs your judgment more heavily in determining consensus.
I think it's a pretty neat idea and I have been talking it up to my two oldest daughters who are excited to help "do science" in their spare time.
Sarah Parcak finds all kinds of shit underground by looking at satellite imagery (see NatGeo vid). She won a bunch of prize money from TEDx and used it to build a platform to crowdsource her efforts to sort through large numbers of pictures, thus helping her to find even more shit.
The platform just went live a couple of weeks ago. I haven't spent the time going through the tutorial yet but it seems like they have some kind of algorithm that weighs your judgment against others. The more your analysis matches the numerical consensus for any given image, the higher your rating score climbs which, in turn, weighs your judgment more heavily in determining consensus.
I think it's a pretty neat idea and I have been talking it up to my two oldest daughters who are excited to help "do science" in their spare time.
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