Summary
- Italy’s National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps used artificial intelligence to find the body of a missing hiker in the Cottian Alps.
- The drone used to search the 183-hectare mountain took around 2,600 images of the area from a distance of 50 metres.
- analysing the images took only a few hours, compared with weeks or months if done by a human.
- The technology can also analyse thermal imaging, which is used to find living people.
- The technology is aimed at reducing the number of fatalities in mountain accidents.
By Marta Abbà
Original Article